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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
Barnard fires union activist
Last September, Georgette Fleischer, one of the leaders of a long fight to organize contingent faculty at Barnard College, wrote an article for LAWCHA’s LaborOnline detailing the struggle and explaining why the new union, UAW Local 2210, had voted to strike. Read more…-
Labor 14.3 (September 2017)
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
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Imagine If Migrant Workers Had Labor Rights
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Nativism Needs Fake History
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The Dual Economy
Upcoming Events
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Dirty Work :SLSA 2018 Conference
May 17-19, 2018•Richard B. Russell Library on the University of GeorgiaThe Southern Labor Studies Association will convene the 2018 Southern Labor Studies Conference in Athens, GA, at the Richard B. Russell Library on the University of Georgia campus, May 17-19, 2018. The conference will gather academics, activists, archivists, and students for three days of panels, roundtables, book discussions, and other sessions organized around the theme of “Dirty Work.”
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the kind of conservative, populist politics that led Drew Pendergrass of the Harvard Politics Review to describe the Trump phenomenon as “The Alabamafication of America.” Read more →
