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The Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California recently posted sexually suggestive photos of housekeepers, and fired a woman who objected, as well as
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CFP: MLWCH Graduate Student Colloquium 2012 (Deadline: December 1, 2011)
Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Graduate Student Colloquium University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee February 17 & 18, 2012 (Paper Proposals by December 1, 2011;
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A national day of labor solidarity has been called for this Thursday November 17 by the Occupy Wall Street movement and numerous labor
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Bread and Roses Strike Centennial Anniversary Conference (April 27-28, 2012)
When 30,000 workers walked out of Lawrence’s textile mills in the dead of a New England winter in January 1912, they launched an
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LAWCHA member Lisa Phillips recently appeared on C-SPAN’s historical series, The Contenders, documenting presidential contenders that ran and lost, but nevertheless changed the
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CFP: North American Labor History Conference — Insurgency and Resistance (Deadline: March 23, 2012)
The 34th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2012 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan The Program Committee of the North American
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In September, 2011 a small group of protesters gathered on Wall Street to protest growing inequality in the United States. It has since
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CFP: How Class Works, SUNY (Deadline: December 12, 2011)
How Class Works, 2010 Call for Presentations A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012 The Center for Study of Working Class