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The Origins of Right-to-Work: Vance Muse, Anti-Semitism, and the Maintenance of Jim Crow Labor Relations

As Kentucky legislators pass a measure outlawing the union shop and Missouri’s General Assembly contemplates doing the same, it is worth remembering that.

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Activism Contingent Faculty Committee Blog LAWCHA

LAWCHA Statement on Collective Bargaining for All Faculty

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) applauds and endorses the Organization of American Historians (OAH) “Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time,.

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Empowering Migrant Workers in Global Supply Chains

Many of the more than 150 million migrant workers around the world endure abusive conditions—and one of the most exploitative phases of transnational.

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Everyday Encounters: Antagonism in the Sharing Economy

Contemporary service industry jobs, many of them tied to the sharing economy, affect both workers and customers. As Diane Negra and John Russo.

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Deindustrialisation, Deregulation, and Division: The Case of Shirebrook and Sports Direct

Deindustrialisation has ravaged areas of the English North and Midlands, areas that are also some of the hardest hit by successive governments’ programs.

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How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story

Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is.

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Don’t Blame Youngstown

The elites who turned a blind eye to an economic cataclysm are now blaming the victims. John Russo

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Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County

The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the.

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Film & Video LAWCHA

“Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights,” a film by Michael Honey

Historians look for details to make history come alive, and oral history can provide them. Over thirty years of research, my scores of.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA Opportunity

Gutman Prize 2017: Call for Submissions

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.

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