About Us
LAWCHA is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists who seek to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing.
News & Alerts
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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors
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Ryan Pettengill on his new book, Communists and Community . . .in Detroit
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Alexandra Finley on Her New Book, An Intimate Economy
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Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
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Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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Injustice, Aggregated: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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Workers’ Worth: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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A Roundtable Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished : Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
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“The pandemic has revealed to many that care work is vital work”: A Conversation with Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare (M.A.R.CH.) co-founder Phuong Nguyen
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The Irony of Essential Work: COVID-19’s Impact on Campus Workers
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“Everything you do as a grad student is a gamble”: The graduate student employee COVID-19 experience
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“Who can plan their life just one year in advance?”: Non Tenure-Track Labor in Times of Crisis
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Essential or Expendable? Working in Higher Education during COVID-19
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Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship
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Lecturer Organizing and COVID-19
Upcoming Events
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
September 17, 2020•via Zoom
Read MoreLAWCHA’s Pandemic Book Talks feature talks by LAWCHA members whose books launched in the midst of (or just before) the pandemic. Book talks will feature a presentation and discussion. Join us September 17 for Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (The New Press, 2020).
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Touré Reed, Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism
October 15, 2020•via Zoom
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LAWCHA’s Pandemic Book Talks feature talks by LAWCHA members whose books launched in the midst of (or just before) the pandemic. Book talks will feature a presentation and discussion. Join us for Touré Reed, Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism (Verso, 2020). -
LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Robert Chase, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners Rights in Postwar America
November 19, 2020•via Zoom
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LAWCHA’s Pandemic Book Talks feature talks by LAWCHA members whose books launched in the midst of (or just before) the pandemic. Book talks will feature a presentation and discussion. Join us November 19 for Robert Chase, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners Rights in Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
In Memoriam
Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Professor David H. Bensman
Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Professor David H. Bensman A champion for workers, Bensman mentored two generations of future labor activists, organizers, and scholars during a 42-year career at Rutgers.
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors
A People’s History of Life and Labor in the San Gabriel Valley: An Interview with authors and editors of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers, 2020). We’re here to talk about East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, a collection of 31 essays edited by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft. The book was released in late February in Rutgers University Press’s Latinidad series (edited by longtime LAWCHA stalwart and former board member Matt Garcia), and like all books released in 2020, its editors and authors are promoting it remotely. Read more →
