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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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Immigrant Societies and Union Culture
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Betrayal: A Review and an Exchange
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Syrian Families in the Colorado Coal Mining Communities
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Contingent Magazine: History Is For Everyone
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David Witwer on Murder in the Garment District
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Betrayal: A Critical View of the Government Takeover of the Teamsters
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National Park Service Fall Webinar Series – Monumental Labor: Landscapes of Work and Struggle
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“Jovita Idar: A Texas Labor, Education, and Anti-lynching activist”
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Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City
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Revolt at John Deere — Ties to a Radical Past
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The Unbuttoned Mind of Jeremy Brecher
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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Toni Gilpin on Her New Book, The Long Deep Grudge
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What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz
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Blair 100: A Centennial of Solidarity and Courage
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UNITE HERE, the 2020 Elections and Beyond
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Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
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Jacob Zumoff on The Red Thread; the Passaic Textile Strike
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Forum on John French’s Lula and His Politics of Cunning
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Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
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The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
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Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
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How Amazon’s Anti-Union Consultants Are Trying to Crush the Labor Movement
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Membership list is back!
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels Essay on Italian Immigrant Gatekeeping – Free Access
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Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
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Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
Immigrant Societies and Union Culture
Bob Rossi is a long-time member of the Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, (SNPJ) who has interviewed and corresponded with dozens of SNPJ members in writing a history of the 1920s coalfield culture and union battles. This post is derived from a presentation he gave to SNPJ Lodge #371 in Cle Elum, Washington in September. -Editor As I have done my research on Colorado coal mining communities in the 1920s and pieced together an account of the 1927-28 Colorado mine workers strike, I have discovered that in order to understand these communities and that strike we need to understand how the churches, lodges, and early unions in the coalfields functioned, and how workers’ struggles for control of their work and workplaces were joined to their communities through these institutions. Read more →
