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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Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country
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Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Big Win for Victims of Racist Restrictive Covenants
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New American Federation of Labor By the People Crowdsourced Transcription Campaign Launched
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Supreme Court Justices who were Enslavers
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Harold Washington Rainbow Coalition: Perspectives
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What Would You Like to See in the Journal, Labor?
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Deindustrializing Montreal – A Response
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Interrogating Planning and Policing in Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal
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Questions of Activism and Democracy in Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal
Upcoming Events
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REGISTRATION OPENClass in Everyday Life :Theory and Praxis
May 18-20, 2023•New Brunswick, New JerseyThe 2023 LAWCHA conference calls attention to spaces of class consciousness and organization in and beyond the workplace. CFP deadline is October 31, 2022.
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In Memoriam
Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
Bob Bussell on the memorable life of scholar activist Jane LaTour.
Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country
Steven Beda’s essay, “‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man’: Environmental Conflict and Working-Class Politics in Oregon Timber Country, 1970–Present,” in issue 19:1 (March 2023) of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is available for free until July 30, 2023, courtesy of Duke University Press. In this essay Beda introduces the article with ruminations about working-class identity and images from a recent trip back to Oregon Timber Country. We will post author essays highlighting findings from this issue over the next few weeks. Read more →
