WCSA Awards Nominations (Deadline: January 15, 2016)
The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) invites nominations (including selfnominations) for awards covering the year of 2015.
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Gary Cappy, 1952-2015
I am sad to report that Gary Cappy, of Grass Roots Press, which has printed the LAWCHA newsletter for many years has passed away. I just learned of the news, but Gary passed on August 29th, 2015.
Gary was a Pennsylvania native who attended West Virginia University.
Read more →Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize – submissions due January 3, 2016
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with the University of Illinois Press.
Read more →Jim Berger, “This is the media’s real bias — pro-business, pro-corporate, pro-CEO,” Slate (October 30, 2015)
There are cable stations which devote nearly all their programming to aspects of [the workings of capital]. NPR, of course, has “Marketplace” in both evening and morning editions. On the other hand, alongside this extensive coverage of business and investment, there is almost no coverage of labor.
Read more →Working History Podcast: Religion’s Role in Organizing the South
SLSA’s latest Working History podcast, “Religion’s Role in Organizing the South,“ is available for listening on iTunes and SoundCloud. In the episode, Professor Kenneth Fones-Wolf of West Virginia University discusses his book co-authored with Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South, the role of religion in the CIO’s Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement.
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Mapping the IWW
The IWW History Project is now live. Based at the University of Washington, the online project reveals in new ways the rich history of the Industrial Workers of the World during the formative years, 1905-1935.
Read more →Search for Director of Labor Program at University of Massachusetts Boston
he University of Massachusetts Boston has long had a Labor Studies Program and Labor Resource Center. Now, however, we are reorganizing and redeveloping this labor oriented work. A principal step in this effort will be the hiring of a Faculty Director of the Program and the Center.
Read more →LAWCHA co-sponsorship at AHA, OAH, and Berks
If you would like to have LAWCHA co-sponsorship for a session at any of the conferences below, 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.
Read more →Social Justice for a Global Working Class: MLWCH Colloquium, Purdue
Organizers of the 2016 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) are soliciting papers of approximately 10 to 25 pages, from any discipline, broadly related to themes in labor history and working class studies. CFP Deadline: February 5, 2016.
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Rosalyn Baxandall, 1939-2015
Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of “women’s work,” died on Tuesday night at her home in Manhattan. She was 76.
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