Adjuncts and contingent faculty are teaching more and more students at colleges and universities today. LAWCHA is setting up an ad hoc committee to help make our organization more responsive to the needs and circumstances of this growing cohort.
Read more →The Labor and Employment Relations Association cordially invites submissions of symposia, workshops, and individual papers for the 2016 Annual Meetings of LERA, to be held May 26-May 29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Symposia and workshop deadline: November 15; Individual paper deadline: December 15.
Read more →The PNLHA invites proposals for presentations, workshops and performances that explore the historical experiences of workers and their organizations in the Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada). CFP Deadline: January 25, 2016.
Read more →CAWLS 2016 Conference. he Congress theme, “Energizing Communities” seeks to engage our collective interest in how communities are organized, how they respond to social change and how we build alliances with like-minded groups. Deadline: December 1, 2016.
Read more →Labor scholars and activists everywhere are are writing to demand that Leon Rodriguez, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, to reverse his decision to deny the Mr. Clean workers U visas, allowing the company to continue holding them in a condition of unpaid servitude.
Read more →National History Day (NHD) is a highly regarded academic program for elementary and secondary school students. The American Labor Studies Center (ALSC) annually sponsors a Gold Medal Prize ($1,000) for the best entry on American Labor History.
Read more →The University of Maryland Libraries serve more than 37,500 students and 4,200 faculty at the University System of Maryland’s flagship campus and constitute the largest university library system in the Washington D.C./Baltimore area. The University of Maryland Libraries share the teaching, learning and research goals of the university.
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For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality. One of the conference’s highlights was the session, “Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett” where panelists shared ways that Barrett’s contributions to the field of labor and working class history offer an inspiring model of how to balance scholarly excellence with civic engagement.
Read more →The B.C. Labour Heritage Centre is an independent not-for-profit historical society with charity status, working to preserve and expand the knowledge of the important role of workers in the history of British Columbia. To further support the research and writing of BC labour history, the Centre is soliciting, for use in all of these capacities, original works of historical research exploring some aspect of BC’s rich labour history.
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