posts from the year2015

Help Needed: Contingent Faculty Initiative

by on October 25, 2015

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.

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Labor, Justice and the Environment

by on October 17, 2015

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.

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Petition against Denying Mr. Clean Workers U Visas

by on October 17, 2015

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.

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Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett

by on September 25, 2015

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.

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BC Labor Heritage Centre Call for Articles and Papers: Deadline October 10

by on September 24, 2015

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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