2017 Seattle Live Blog
2017 Seattle Live Blog

Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War

Saturday’s session on the Documentary Ludlow: Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War offered a new transnational perspective on a well-known topic. We.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation

Friday’s session on Industrial Nostalgia and Heritage Preservation alerted us to the way that industrial decline has become the basis for historical interpretations..

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Awards and business meeting

Awards and Business meeting, Saturday: One of the real pleasures of LAWCHA is our awards. We now give out two book awards, the.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Global labor migration

Global labor migration session, Saturday: If the #lawcha2017 opening session was a barn-burner, so too was what was for me the end of.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

LIVE-ish Blog Post from Strange Career of Ind Relations

Strange Career of Industrial Relations session, Friday: How exciting! LAWCHA members are live blogging from #LAWCHA2017 at the Univ of Washington in beautiful.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Remembering Jim Green

Remembering Jim Green, Saturday Session: A year ago, LAWCHA lost a stalwart: Jim Green, LAWCHA’s third president. At a panel on Friday afternoon,.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

“Traveling the World: Workers’ Transnationalism”

A panel on Friday called “Traveling the World: Workers’ Transnationalism” was a example of another valuable thing about LAWCHA panels: thoughtful comments and.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Religious history at #lawcha2017

Religious history panel, Friday Morning: One of the things I most enjoy about LAWCHA conferences is how ecumenical they are. Labor and working-class.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Thursday Night’s Mass Incarceration Plenary

On Thursday evening, the 2017 LAWCHA conference opened with a barn-burner of a plenary on mass incarceration and prison labor, featuring Heather Thompson,.

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

A strike and an uprising [in Texas]

I was very impressed with Friday’s fine cut screening of session B.7 “A strike and an uprising [in Texas]”: an experimental telling of.

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