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
Take the Pledge: February 16 National Stayaway Day
National Stayaway day resistance will involve protests at airports and other federal facilities and a call to federal workers to stay away from work. Read more…-
The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
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American Socialism, Revisited
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The New Populisms and the White Working Class: University of Michigan Press
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Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
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The Ghosts of Bisbee
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Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
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2019 WILL Empower Apprenticeship Applications are Now Open
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Peter Cole on his new book, Dockworker Power
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Working Class in American History Series: Perspective from Appalachia
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Working Class in American History Series: A Perspective From the African-American Field
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Writing History with Working People as Central Actors
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The Global Working Class Fights Back
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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Take the Pledge :February 16 National Stayaway Day
February 16, 2019•EverywhereThis resistance will involve protests at airports and other federal facilities and a call to federal workers to stay away from work. The concept of a “stayaway” is borrowed from the anti-apartheid movement South Africa, which used this form of protest effectively.
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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
November 21-22, 2019•Washington, DCNew Submission Deadline: February 1, 2019 This conference will mark the centenary of that watershed event. It will be both retrospective and prospective.
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The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
The working class currently has remarkable visibility in US political culture. In defiance of a longstanding belief in America’s classlessness, even today’s sitting president publicly acknowledges America’s “working class.” However dramatically Donald Trump is breaking some political norms, though, the particular way he uses the phrase working class is completely consistent with trends that have been emerging within mainstream US politics for decades. Read more →
