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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Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
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Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
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A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10
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Collective Bargaining from All Sides in Higher Education
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Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club
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Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
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“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”
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Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces: A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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Aaron Goings on his new book: The Port of Missing Men
Upcoming Events
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk :Deborah Willis, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
March 18, 2021 at 7PM EST•via Zoom
Register here to attend
Read More
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Workers on the Front Lines: LAWCHA 2021 Annual Conference
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk: Ron Schatz, The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era
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LAWCHA Pandemic Book Talk: Alice L Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
In Memoriam
David H. Bensman, 1950-2020
Professor, Activist, Mentor, Friend
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law FirmUnless the NLRB upholds Amazon’s recent appeal of a mail-in ballot, almost 6000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama (BHM1), which opened in last spring, will vote on whether or not to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) between February 8 and March 29, 2021. The union is facing one of the most powerful anti-union law firms in recent U.S. history. Read more →
February 2nd, 2021
