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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2019 WILL Empower Apprenticeship Applications are Now Open
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Peter Cole on his new book, Dockworker Power
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Working Class in American History Series: Perspective from Appalachia
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Working Class in American History Series: A Perspective From the African-American Field
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Writing History with Working People as Central Actors
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The Global Working Class Fights Back
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40 Years of Working-Class History: The Series and the Field
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The University of Illinois Working Class in American History Series at 40
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Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?
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Beyond the Caravan: Why We Must Protect Workers Covered by TPS
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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
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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Peter Cole on his new book, Dockworker Power
Our series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. The University of Illinois Press published Peter Cole’s second book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area, in December. Cole, a professor of history at Western Illinois University, answered questions from Jacob Remes. Read more →
