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LAWCHA Award Winners, 2015

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly by Cornell University ILR School)..

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Suellen Hoy wins 2014 Harry E. Pratt Award

We are pleased to pass along that LAWCHA member Suellen Hoy has won 2014’s Harry E. Pratt Award for the best article in.

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Camille Guérin-Gonzales, 1945-2015

Camille Guérin-Gonzales, a founding member of LAWCHA, former board member, and one of the stalwarts of the LAWCHA Landmark Committee, whose work was.

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James Green: Labor Festival Talk, Upcoming Book, and PBS Series

James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized.

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Les Orear, Activist and Founder of Illinois Labor History Society (1911-2014)

Leslie Fray Orear, a union organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers of America, editor of its newspaper and co-founder and president emeritus of.

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Leon Fink receives Sol Stetin Award for Labor History

Congratulations to Leon Fink who received Sidney Hillman Foundation’s gives 2014 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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SLSA is accepting essay submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize

The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) announces the Robert H. Zieger Prize for the best essay in Southern Labor Studies. This prize has.

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Former LAWCHA President Mike Honey publishes Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition

Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to.

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Eva Swidler, “Academic Freedom From Below: Toward an Adjunct Centered Struggle”

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Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)

The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

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