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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Traci Parker on her new book, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
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César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowships
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International Workshop: “Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process: Comparative Perspectives”, Göttingen, 20-22 November
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Class(room) Warfare
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Notre Dame Cathedral and Questions from a Worker Who Reads (after Bertolt Brecht)
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Labouring Lives and Political Protest Across and Beyond the Nordic Countries
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Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More
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The Oppositional Politics of Race and Class in the Brexit Debate
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Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian: an Interview with Alice Kessler-Harris
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LAWCHA at OAH
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Jobs and Medicare for All
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Triangle Fire Memorial Collective Ribbon
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Share the Wealth
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
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.
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Traci Parker on her new book, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
Every month or so, LaborOnline interviews the author of a new book in labor and working-class history. This month, our series continues with Traci Parker, whose book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s was just published by the University of North Carolina Press. Parker, an assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, answered questions from Jacob Remes. Read more →
