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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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
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Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
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The Ghosts of Bisbee
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Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
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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The Oppositional Politics of Race and Class in the Brexit Debate
I live in a relatively affluent predominantly white neighbourhood in the South of England. One day in the city centre I am approached by an older white homeless man; he is weaving, unwashed, I can smell alcohol on his breath. He asks me for money and I politely refuse, as I feel uncertain and unsafe. He advances towards me, and says he doesn’t believe I don’t have the money to spare, calls me a ‘Bloody Paki’, and when I refuse again, he protests “why don’t you all go home!”. Read more →
