LAWCHA 2017 Conference
President’s Report
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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Organizing the Academy: Strategies and Structures
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
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LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap
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Mass Incarceration and the Working Class – LAWCHA Conference 2017
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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
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Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital
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Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners
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Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now
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Labor Mobilizations and Movements: The 2017 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium
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Seattle 2017 Conference Live Blog
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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
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The New Left, Labor History and the Unending Echoes of 1956
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After Paycheck Taxes
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Conor Casey and Evangeline Urcia on We Do the Work: Filipino American activist, poet, writer, and worker Carlos Bulosan
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My new book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, seeks to illuminate the lives of about one-third of the cotton belt’s whites, who owned neither land nor slaves. By doing so, we can understand more about the labor crisis and class tensions that helped to bring on the Civil War. Read more →
July 17th, 2017
