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
-
Teaching Labor’s Story: A Mission and a Workshop #LAWCHA19
-
Representations of Workers , Unions, and Labor Conflict in 1950s America: #LAWCHA19
-
The Dos and Don’ts of Staying at a Hotel, or Why the Green Program is BS #LAWCHA19
-
Social Reproduction as a Category for Labor History #LAWCHA19
-
Talking for Justice! Maria Mareno/Migrant Women’s Activism #LAWCHA19
-
Labor Histories of Disaster Panel at #LAWCHA2019
-
Treasure Island on the English Channel: Three Years After Brexit
-
Long-term global perspectives on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace: Policy and practice (Deadline September 19)
-
Talking Class and Race at the Same Time
-
The Great Cowboy Strike: An interview with Mark Lause
-
Doris Day: Working-Class Hero
-
Traci Parker on her new book, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
-
César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowships
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.
-
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.
Read More
Teaching Labor’s Story: A Mission and a Workshop #LAWCHA19
Ed: This is one of a series of conference notes from the recent LAWCHA conference. If you have reflections from one of the panels or plenaries, please send them along. Teaching Labor’s Story: A Mission and a Workshop The Trump years and rise of white nationalism in the United States and Europe has given new urgency to the work of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and to democracy-loving historians. Whereas previous calls to engage the public with labor and working-class perspectives were few and far between, today’s scholars and their professional historical organizations are better prepared and more willing to engage. Social media has certainly helped ease the transition, and Trump’s agenda has raised the stakes. Read more →
