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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Rails, Jails and Trolleys
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From Solidarity to Shock Therapy: The AFL-CIO and the Fall of Soviet Communism
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Staughton Lynd, 1929-2022
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Peterloo and Pedagogy
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LAWCHA 2022 CFP Deadline Extended: October 31
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Standing Up: Tales of Struggle A Novel Resource for Labor Leaders
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The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
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A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
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An Ambitious and Provocative New History
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A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
Upcoming Events
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DEADLINE EXTENDEDClass in Everyday Life :Theory and Praxis
May 18-20, 2023•New Brunswick, New JerseyThe 2023 LAWCHA conference calls attention to spaces of class consciousness and organization in and beyond the workplace. CFP deadline is October 31, 2022.
Now accepting proposal submissions
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In Memoriam
David H. Bensman, 1950-2020
Professor, Activist, Mentor, Friend
Rails, Jails and Trolleys
Rails, Jails, & Trolleys is a feature-length documentary, directed by Henna Mann and produced by the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. The documentary highlights the timeline of the historic Farmers’ Movement in India and the Canadian diaspora’s response to it. The film features insights from nineteen activists, journalists and academics who provide their research and knowledge on India’s history of agriculture, the ongoing economic decline in the workforce, human rights violations, and the way in which all these factors led to the largest farmers’ protest in history in 2020-2021. Read more →
