President’s Report
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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Eladio Bobadilla, “Creating a humanitarian crisis — while ignoring U.S. history,” Herald Sun, June 18, 2017
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How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants
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The Sweat of Their Face: Exhibition Review, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, through September 3, 2018
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A Dirty Deal: Social Dirt and the Adjunct Predicament
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“Oilcan” Ed Sadlowski, 1938-2018: Midwestern Grit
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Labor 15.2 (May, 2018)
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Labor 15.1 (March 2018)
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LAWCHA 2019 Conference CFP: Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements
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Labor 14.4 (December 2017)
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Call for Papers: LAWCHA’s 2019 Conference
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New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970
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Christo Aivalis on His New Book, The Constant Liberal
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WILL Empower: Apprenticeship Program for Women
Upcoming Events
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40th Annual North American Labor History Conference
October 18-20, 2018•Wayne State University, Detroit, MIThe Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC), an international conference with a global perspective on labor and working-class history, invites proposals for case studies, project demonstrations, papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on the theme Labor and History in the 21st Century for our fortieth anniversary annual meeting.
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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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How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants
President Trump’s recent visit to Southern California to view prototypes for his much-touted border wall drew protests and new pledges by immigrants and their supporters to fight his anti-immigrant policies. But in February, the Supreme Court handed immigration rights advocates a legal setback in Jennings v. Rodriguez — one that is even more daunting than the concrete wall Trump wants to build. Read more →
