French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week
French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s.
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Garment Workers are Speaking Out – Will Nike Listen?
Today marks the first day of our countrywide worker speak-out featuring Noi Supalai, a former union President and Nike worker from Thailand. While.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- March 17, 2016
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LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network
The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015..
- by Ryan Poe
- March 2, 2016
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Oaxaca Teachers Still Fighting Corporate Education Reforms
Ten years ago, one of the most radical unions in the hemisphere, the Sección XXII of Mexico’s National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), led.
- by Eric Larson
- February 26, 2016
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The Labour Movement, Mutuals and Co-operatives: CFP for Special Issue of Labour History
Greg Patmore and Mark Westcott have issued a call for proposals for a special issue of the May, 2017 issue of Labour History..
- by Ryan Poe
- January 8, 2016
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Australia and U.S. Labor: Transnational Influences and Historical Comparisons
For three days in early January—summertime in the land “down under”—historians and other scholars interested in labor gathered on the campus of Australia’s.
- by Peter Cole
- January 30, 2015
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The Days of Action: The Character of Class Struggle in 1990s Ontario
Illustrated by Orion Keresztesi, written by Doug Nesbitt and Sean Carleton, and augmented by an introduction by David Camfield, The Days of Action.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 15, 2014
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Barry York, “From the Oral History collection: Issy Wyner”
Issy Wyner was born at Paddington, Sydney, in 1916 and grew up in the Rozelle-Balmain area. The interview with him was recorded for.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 18, 2014
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Letter of Support for Mexican Intellectual Edur Velasco Arregui
Please see the following call to action passed along to us by Richard Roman and LAWCHA member Manny Ness. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- November 5, 2013
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Violations of the Labor and Human Rights of Maruti Suzuki Workers in India
On 27 June, 2013, the International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) released the report entitled, “Merchants of Menace: Repressing workers in India’s new.
- by Immanuel Ness
- June 28, 2013