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 2019: Contingent Faculty, Independent Scholars, and LAWCHA
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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David Montgomery Award: Deadline October 1
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Margaret Haley, “Why Teachers Should Organize” 1904
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Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
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Could Regional Reparations Help the Democrats Retake the Rust Belt?
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David Montgomery Award: Submission Deadline October 1, 2019
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Wobblies Repressed as (almost) None Others
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Teaching Labor’s Story: A Mission and a Workshop #LAWCHA19
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Representations of Workers , Unions, and Labor Conflict in 1950s America: #LAWCHA19
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The Dos and Don’ts of Staying at a Hotel, or Why the Green Program is BS #LAWCHA19
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Social Reproduction as a Category for Labor History #LAWCHA19
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Talking for Justice! Maria Mareno/Migrant Women’s Activism #LAWCHA19
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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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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LAWCHA 2019: Contingent Faculty, Independent Scholars, and LAWCHA
Tula Connell, chair of LAWCHA’s Independent Scholars Committee and Claire Goldstene, chair of the Contingent Faculty Committee organized a Saturday lunch plenary at the June 2019 LAWCHA meeting in Durham. The well-attended and highly participatory session offered an opportunity to make more visible the experiences of independent and contingent faculty scholars, to learn about work the committees have done around issues impacting independent and contingent faculty, and to continue the conversations about what LAWCHA can do and how we can protect all workers in higher education. Read more →
