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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Labor Song of the Month: “Harry Bridges”
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What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)
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Labor ends all business relations with FedEx
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Middle-Class Influence vs. Working-Class Character
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The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy
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Labor’s Day, More or Less?
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Sorry to Bother You: A Spectacle That Teaches
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Worker Rights Attacks Part of Human Rights Crackdown
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LAWCHA 2019 CFP Updated
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LAWCHA Move Boosts Independent Historians
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Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
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The University of Iowa Labor Center and the Attacks on Labor
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The University of Iowa Labor Center Is Under Attack
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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40th Annual North American Labor History Conference
October 18-20, 2018•Wayne State University, Detroit, MIThe Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC), an international conference with a global perspective on labor and working-class history, invites proposals for case studies, project demonstrations, papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on the theme Labor and History in the 21st Century for our fortieth anniversary annual meeting.
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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
October 24-26, 2019•Washington, DCOctober 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor Organization (ILO).
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Middle-Class Influence vs. Working-Class Character
“Jesse” is one of a cohort of 80 students sociologist Jessica Calarco observed from the 3rd through the 5th grades and then revisited in middle school for her new book, Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School. Read more →
