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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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
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The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
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American Socialism, Revisited
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The New Populisms and the White Working Class: University of Michigan Press
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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Class(room) Warfare
The actress Felicity Huffman—along with 13 other parents charged in the college admissions scandal—entered plea deals last week, putting pressure on actress Lori Laughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, to do the same. Prosecutors are hinting that if Laughlin doesn’t accept a deal she could face 20 years in prison, 3 years of probation, and a $250,000 fine. Read more →
