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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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”
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2019 WILL Empower Apprenticeship Applications are Now Open
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Peter Cole on his new book, Dockworker Power
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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Jobs and Medicare for All
You can tell that Medicare for All is becoming a real possibility when it gets a rigorous cost-benefit analysis and when its advocates start seriously raising and addressing the inevitable downsides of the policy. There is no greater downside to Medicare for All than the 1.8 million clerical and administrative jobs it will eliminate in the insurance industry and in health providers’ offices. Read more →
