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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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
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#MeToo and McDonald’s
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LAWCHA Conference CFP Deadline Extended: Now October 15
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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Louise Toupin on her newly translated book, Wages for Housework
Our series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. An English translation of Louise Toupin’s Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77, was co-published this fall by UBC Press and Pluto Press. Toupin, a retired lecturer in political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, answered questions from Jacob Remes. Her answers were translated from the French by Xandi McMahon. Read more →
