March 28, 2010 LAWCHA/OAH Update

 

Our annual membership meeting and conference will be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Washington, D.C., at the William and Mary Washington, DC Office, Offsite Sessions at The College of William and Mary Washington Office, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. (Metro: Red Line to Dupont Circle station or walking distance from the Hilton Washington).

 

Please note that the deadline to register for the Friday, April 9th lunch is April 1st!

 

We are also sponsoring numerous sessions at the Organization of American Historians convention in Washington, DC, April 7-10. See www.OAH.org and our profile below.

 

LAWCHA SPONSORED EVENTS AT THE OAH (see OAH.org for more detail)

 

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 –

 

6:30 to 8:00 PM Busboys and Poets bookstore - 5th and K 1025 5th St. NW, WDC 20001

Information on the book and ordering at the Bus Boys and Poets’ website: http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9780252076404

Further information on the book is at: www.staleybook.org;

Co-sponsored by: Jobs with Justice; Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington; LAWCHA. Book sales to be handled by Global Exchange

 

Wednesday April 7, 2010

3:45-5:15 – The Implications of the Staley Fight for Today’s Labor Movement - Steven Ashby and C.J. Hawking, Connecticut Ave. Hilton

 

Thursday, April 8, 2010

 

12:00-3:30 – Lunch and LAWCHA Board Meeting, Hilton, Second Floor D

[lunch provided for Board members, please confirm with Mike Stauch, lawcha@duke.edu).

 

6:30 pm Evening dinner and social for all LAWCHA members at La Tasca (722 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, Gallery Place on the Redline); come celebrate. You will be responsible for paying for your meal (Tapas and Sangria), but please make a reservation with Mike Stauch (lawcha@duke.edu). We will have a discussion on current struggles of working people and the labor movement.

 

Make a reservation with Mike Stauch (lawcha@duke.edu)

 

Friday April 9, 2010, OAH, Hilton, (rooms TBA)

 

8:30-10:00 – The Politics of Homemaking: Gender, Citizenship and Democracy in Post-war America: Emily E. LaBarbera Twarog, Sarah Potter, Elizabeth More, and Alison Lefkovitz. Chair and comment: Eileen Boris.

 

8:30-10:00 – Controversies in the History of Organized Employers and Anti-Unionism: Chad Pearson, Howard Stanger, Thomas Klug. Comment: Andrew Cohen. Chair and comment: Rosemary Feurer.

 

12:00-1:30 – *LAWCHA/AFL-CIO DISCUSSION 12:00-1:30 PM, Friday, April 9 in the Cabinet Room of the DC Hilton Hotel

 

Brown Bag Reception, box lunch, and forum on the state of labor organizing today and what academics can do. With Arlene Holt-Baker, Executive Vice-President, AFL- CIO, LAWCHA President Kimberley Phillips and LAWCHA Board Member, Nancy MacLean, and moderated by Joe McCartin.

 Sign up now for the lunch by April 1st (the first 50 will be paid for by LAWCHA/AFL-CIO): Michael Stauch (lawcha@duke.edu)).

 

1:45-3:15 – Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People: Songs and Narratives from the Great Depression and Beyond. This multimedia presentation will include musicians from the D.C. labor arts community. Papers are available from <mhoney@uw.edu> and <darrylholter@aol. com>. Chair: Kimberley Phillips, Michael Honey, Darryl Holter. Comment: Erik Gellman.

 

2:00 – Southern Labor Studies Association Panel Discussion and General Meeting

 

The Southern Labor Studies Association will hold its annual membership meet- ing. All current and future potential members, and anyone interested in the his- tory of the southern working class, broadly conceived, is encouraged to attend. The meeting will include the session, “Challenging Teachers, Teaching Challeng- es in Southern Labor History,” featuring Robert Korstad, Joseph McCartin, and Cindy Hahamovitch.

 

5:30 – Remembrance on the Life and Work of Howard Zinn, co-sponsored by LAWCHA and Historians Against War, with Staughton Lynd and others (Hilton, Room TBA).

 

Saturday, April 10, 2010

 

Offsite Sessions at The College of William and Mary Washington Office 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. (Metro: Red Line to Dupont Circle station or walking distance from the Hilton Washington)

 

9:00-11:45 – Working Space: A Conversation Between Labor Historians and Labor Geographers.

 

Chair: Lisa Fine. Rick Halpern, Laurie Mercier, John Russo, Susan McGrath-Champ, and Geoff Mann. Comment: Andrew Herod

 

12:00 – LAWCHA lunch and annual membership meeting:

 

Presentation of Distinguished Supporter of Labor History to Staughton Lynd

Talk by Julie Green, “Ditch Diggers of the World:  From Panama to the Global History of Labor.”

 

Please sign-up for lunch through Mike Stauch at (lawcha@duke.edu). Lunch cost: $12.

 

1:30-3pm Round-table, Dan Bender, Rick Halpern, and Paul Lawrie, "Global Economies and Working Communities: The Practice and Politics of Global Labor and Working-Class History."

 

2:15 – Transnationalism and Latina History. Chair: Vicki Ruiz. Natalia Molina, Ana Elizabeth Rosas, and Carmen Teresa Whalen, and Maria Cristina Garcia.

LAWCHA Annual Meetings

Since its founding LAWCHA has been actively involved in co-sponsoring academic conferences at various locations. From 2000 to 2006, LAWCHA co-sponsored the annual North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 2005 LAWCHA presented its first national conference in Santa Barbara, California, in cooperation with one of its related regional organizations, the Southwest Labor Studies Association. The conference in Santa Barbara, and more recently a second meeting at Duke University, proved so successful that LAWCHA leaders decided to hold all of its future annual meetings at rotating locations in North America. These are the sites, locations, and co-sponsors of our next several meetings:

 

Upcoming LAWCHA Meetings

2009: Chicago: “Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New,” hosted by Roosevelt University.
Click here for more information and to register.

2010: TBA

2011: Madison, hosted by University of Wisconsin

 

Past LAWCHA Meetings

2008: Vancouver, British Columbia, co-sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association.
Click here for more information on the PNLHA.

2007: Durham, North Carolina, co-sponsored by Southern Labor Studies Association

2005: Santa Barbara, California, co-sponsored by Soutwest Labor Studies Association

 

Other LAWCHA Events

LAWCHA also co-sponsors sessions annually at the meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the North American Labor History Conference. LAWCHA periodically participates in conferences of other learned societies as well as local events. For more information, or to participate on a LAWCHA panel, e-mail our Program Committee co-chairs Colleen O\'Neill (Utah State University) and Dorothy Fujita-Rony (University of California-Irvine).

LAWCHA Events for 2007-2008

North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit. October 18-20, 2007.

Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2007.

American Historical Association, Washington, DC. January 3-6, 2008.

Organization of American Historians, New York City, March 28-31, 2008

 

Past LAWCHA Events

Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, March 29 - April 1, 2007.

 

Other LAWCHA Activities

Latin American Labor History Conference
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The Latin American History Conference has been held annually since 1984. It was founded at Yale University under the sponsorship of Yale\'s Council on Latin American Studies. In its early years, the conference was held at Yale, Princeton or SUNY-Stony Brook. Since 1993, the conference has been held annually at Duke University under the sponsorship of Duke\'s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The conference is held each year on or around the third weekend of April and lasts two days. The principal goal of the conference has been to bring together in a relaxed, workshop atmosphere faculty and graduate students specializing in Latin American labor. While the major academic conferences such as those of the American Historical Association and the Latin American Studies Association have sessions on Latin American labor, they offer little room for the sort of informed, prolonged discussion that takes place at the Latin American Labor History Conference.