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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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Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson
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The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914
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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
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“We Just Want A Democratic Workplace”: Can the NLRB Protect Starbucks’ Pro-Union Workers?
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A Victory for Hope: A Note about the ALU Victory with References
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What’s Old is New Again: Some Initial Thoughts on the Amazon Workers Victory
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Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive
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The Odyssey of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial
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Nightmare Alley and Tented Entertainment Workers
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Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World. Rather than review the book, Labor OnLine decided instead to convene a conversation with four activist-scholars who could shed light on Noel’s experience at US Steel, and offer their own critique of his account of working life there. Read more →
June 17th, 2022
