Join Us in Celebrating and Sustaining the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum has just finished its third year open in Matewan, and what a year it was.
Read more →posts from the year2017
Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines
On November 16, 2017, thousands of construction workers walked off their job sites to march through central Sydney in protest against laws designed to limit the power of unions in the construction industry.
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#MeToo Solidarity
Sexual harassment is both a labor and gender justice issue. After all, the workplace is the epicenter of women’s recent outrage about sexual harassment and assault. Hollywood titans, respected reporters, and celebrity chefs all used their power over women’s paychecks in order to gain power over their bodies.
Read more →Marxism Beyond the Economy and Exploitation Beyond the Wage, Eva-Maria Swidler
Since its inception Marxism has largely operated with a narrow definition of the economy which closely resembles capitalism’s own, focusing on wage labor as the pre-eminent example of capitalist relations of labor.
Read more →Call for letters & messages of support for terminated Barnard contingent faculty member
The fight to reinstate contingent faculty activist Georgette Fleischer continues. Fleischer was let go after 17 years of teaching and service at Barnard College. LAWCHA’s contingent faculty committee called for support and messages this summer. We do so again.
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Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin
Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her new book Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (University of Kentucky Press, 2017).
Read more →LAWCHA 2017-18 Newsletter Now Available!
Our 2017-2018 newsletter is now available. It is in the mail if you are a LAWCHA member, or if you prefer, you can download it on our newsletters page.
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Social Class and Trump Voters
Politico’s Michael Kruse visited my hometown earlier this month to get a look at “one of the long-forgotten, woebegone spots in the middle of the country that gave Trump his unexpected victory last fall.” Kruse concluded that “Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help.
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Smash Up Derby podcast
Earlier this year, my friend Sam Smucker and I started the Smash Up Derby podcast – a podcast about “working class politics.” By working class politics we mean a political perspective rooted in the shop-floor struggle for power in the workplace, expressed through unions or other organizations advocating for working people.
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Blake Perkins on His New Book, Hillbilly Hellraisers
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with J. Blake Perkins’s new book Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks
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