History of Capitalism Summer Camp – Price Reduced to $600
The History of Capitalism Summer Camp has had its price reduced to $600 thanks to a number of generous grants. Applications due January 15, 2016.
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“We’ll just live within our means then!”: A Reaction to UW-Madison Graduate School Administration’s Proposal to “Restructure” Graduate Employee Pay
After briefly skimming over the potential effects of the proposed restructuring of pay for graduate assistants, I found myself jadedly stunned by the UW-Madison administration’s most recent attack on the quality of higher education, specifically with regard to the Humanities, at Wisconsin’s prized flagship and world-renowned institution.
Read more →Penn State Center for Global Workers’ Rights: Global Labor Masters Program
The School of Labor and Employment Relations at the Pennsylvania State University invites applicants to its Masters in Professional Studies program within its Center for Global Workers’ Rights. The 12-month program focuses on labor and global workers’ rights and is designed for mid-career professionals.
Read more →Penn State Center for Global Workers’ Rights: Post-Doc Opportunity
The School of Labor and Employment Relations at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for the position of Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights. This is a twelve-month position that begins on August 12, 2016.
Read more →LAWCHA Co-Sponsorship for the ASA
If you would like to have LAWCHA co-sponsorship for a session at the American Studies Association, please send the information to our program committee (Jana Lipman, chair) at [email protected]. We welcome the opportunity to enhance the visibility of LAWCHA at other conferences, and our co-sponsorship can also sometimes help to make sure a worthy session is accepted when the competition is intense.
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Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists
How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his racism. The protesters have rightly pointed out the loathsome words and actions of the turn-of-the-century pro-segregationist academic, former Princeton head, and two-term United States president.
Read more →European Labour History Network: First Conference
The ELHN was founded in October 2013 in Amsterdam as a network of labour historians in order to bring together scholars with different institutional backgrounds (institutes, associations, archives, journals, study groups, individual researchers, etc.) and serve as an umbrella organization for smaller working groups with specific topics and tasks.
Read more →Memorial Service for Cliff Kuhn, December 13
A memorial service for Cliff will occur on Sunday, December 13th at 1PM in The Speaker’s Auditorium at the Georgia State University Student Center, 55 Gilmer Street, Atlanta.
Read more →On The Move!: Working Women and the Struggle for Social Justice
Deadline: December 7, 2015. Our conference in honor of Women’s History Month 2016 will analyze and celebrate this tradition and explore the following questions: How can working women’s movements fight off conservative assaults and who are the allies in that fight?
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Clifford M. Kuhn, 1952-2015
It is with deep regret that we mark the passing of Clifford M. Kuhn, associate professor of History at Georgia State University and executive director of the Oral History Association, who died on Sunday, November 8, after a devastating and unexpected heart attack.
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