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
LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History
The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality, and we demand justice. We stand in solidarity with all who are in the streets to protest racist policing and with the thousands who have been attacked by police in the past week. We are heartened by the large numbers and rich diversity of those who have demonstrated their outrage and demanded meaningful change in our criminal justice system and beyond. Read more…-
A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932
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Philip Rubio on his New Book, Undelivered
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Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity
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The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave
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Black Women Demand Reparations and the Right to Live Free
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Lachlan MacKinnon on his new book, Closing Sysco
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George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism
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LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History
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Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story
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Does the History of Labor Struggles Really Mandate a Vote for Joe Biden?
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The Contagion and a Cure
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Labor & Working Class Cultural Picks to Click
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Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
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Covid-19, the Halifax Explosion, and Crises of Care
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Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast
Upcoming Events
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the Farm Labor Camp Program
July 16, 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 July 16 for Verónica Martínez-Matsuda‘s Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the Farm Labor Camp Program (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Register and join us via Zoom. -
LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s
August 20•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 August 20 for Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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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).
A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932
An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to suppress peaceful protests in the nation’s capital. And most of all he worries about an affable Democratic candidate who is running against him without saying much about a platform or plans. Welcome to 1932. Read more →
