Durham, North Carolina
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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Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?
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Beyond the Caravan: Why We Must Protect Workers Covered by TPS
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Louise Toupin on her newly translated book, Wages for Housework
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Labor and the Digital Landscape: An Update
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Dawson Barrett on His New Book, The Defiant
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The Rightward Shift in Brazil, and Prospects for the Left: An Interview With Labor Historian Sean Purdy
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland on her new book, A Political Education
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation CFP
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The AHA and the Chicago Hotel Strike
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What Does the New Doctor Who Offer Working-Class Whovians?
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Working-Class Politics and The Foremen Problem
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Is the Fever Breaking? Ground Zero Youngstown
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Laura McEnaney on her new book, Postwar
Upcoming Events
Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements
LAWCHA 2019 ConferenceDurham, North Carolina
May 30-June 1, 2019
Labor, migration, and organizing have frequently coalesced. In 2019 LAWCHA seeks presentations that examine how these phenomena have interacted across time and space.
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Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements :LAWCHA 2019 Conference
May 30-June 1, 2019•Duke University, Durham, NCThe Labor and Working-‐Class History Association, an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators and activists, welcomes proposals for the 2019 LAWCHA conference at Duke University in Durham, NC, May 30-June 1. The conference theme will be Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements.
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Continuing the Struggle :The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
October 24-26, 2019•Washington, DCOctober 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor Organization (ILO).
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Beyond the Caravan: Why We Must Protect Workers Covered by TPS
In recent weeks, President Trump has been warning of an “invasion” of a caravan of 3,000 Central Americans, mostly from Honduras, heading north towards the Mexico-U.S. border. In October, these immigrants set out on a journey of more than 2500 miles to seek asylum in the United States, fleeing violence, corruption, and poverty in their home countries. In response to thousands of families, including babies and elders, our government has deployed more than 5000 soldiers to the border in anticipation of their arrival. Read more →
