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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 Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
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“We Just Want A Democratic Workplace”: Can the NLRB Protect Starbucks’ Pro-Union Workers?
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A Victory for Hope: A Note about the ALU Victory with References
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What’s Old is New Again: Some Initial Thoughts on the Amazon Workers Victory
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Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive
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The Odyssey of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial
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Nightmare Alley and Tented Entertainment Workers
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On the “Trucker” Protests in the U.S. and Canada
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Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent
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Not Your Father’s Anti-Union Movement: Ten Key Facts About Starbucks’ Union Avoidance Law Firm, Littler Mendelson
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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their fight for a democratic union met resistance from a notable CIO union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. It is a window into her longer treatment in A Matter of Moral Justice, published by University of Illinois Press –editor Read more →
May 4th, 2022
