posts and bio Emily E. LB. Twarog

Associate Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations Affiliate Faculty, Gender in Global Perspectives Program and European Union Center, and Co-Director, Regina V. Polk Women's Labor Leadership Conference Author, Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017)

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Author, Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017)

The Dos and Don’ts of Staying at a Hotel, or Why the Green Program is BS #LAWCHA19

by Emily E. LB. Twarog on July 12, 2019

Ed: This is one of a series of conference notes from the recent LAWCHA conference. If you have reflections from one of the panels or plenaries, please send them along.

I interviewed a long-time worker at Chicago’s palatial Palmer House hotel for a project I am working on.

The Polk School – Women’s Leadership Development and Labor Extension

by Emily E. LB. Twarog on February 6, 2018

In 1988, the Labor Education Program (a labor studies extension school) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment Relations established the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference (Polk School). Funding through an annual grant established in honor of International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Local 743 organizer Regina V.

Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference: Call for Applications

by Emily E. LB. Twarog on January 25, 2018

The time has come again to recruit women to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference. This year the school will take place May 16-20, 2018 at the Pere Marquette Lodge in Grafton, Illinois.

Emily Twarog on her new book, Politics of the Pantry

by Jacob Remes, Emily E. LB. Twarog on October 13, 2017

Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Emily E. LB. Twarog’s Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America, released today by Oxford University Press.

LIVE-ish Blog Post from Strange Career of Ind Relations

by Emily E. LB. Twarog on June 24, 2017

Strange Career of Industrial Relations session, Friday: How exciting! LAWCHA members are live blogging from #LAWCHA2017 at the Univ of Washington in beautiful Seattle. Panels are taking place in the lovely Mary Gates (yes that Gates…) building during a perfectly sunny weekend that apparently is not the norm.

LIVE! Reports from LAWCHA Panels: Strange Career of Industrial Relations

by Emily E. LB. Twarog on June 23, 2017

How exciting! LAWCHA members are live blogging from #LAWCHA2017 at the Univ of Washington in beautiful Seattle. Panels are taking place in the lovely Mary Gates (yes that Gates…) building during a perfectly sunny weekend that apparently is not the norm.