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LAWCHA/Labor Research Grant

by on September 11, 2022

The Labor and Working-Class History Association and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History will jointly award a $2,000 research grant for a contingent faculty scholar, independent scholar, or community college faculty member engaged in work related to working people, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, activism, and societal context in any period and place.

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LAWCHA 2023 Conference Submissions Open: Class in Everyday Life,

by on September 5, 2022

Roundtables, lightning rounds, and other sessions (film, moderated conversation, etc.) should include a 250-word overview that describes the sessions’ theme and the format. Provide a bio of no more than 100 words for each participant including chair and/or commentator. Proposals for individual presentations (where appropriate) should include a one-paragraph description and brief bio.

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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico

by on July 21, 2022

At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico, Reynalda González Parra had co-founded one of the most radical labor collectives in the entire world.  It was 1915 and amid one of the bloodiest revolutions of the twentieth century González Parra, alongside Mexican, Spanish, and other activists, founded the Tampico local of the Casa del Obrero Mundial (COM)—the House of the Global Worker.

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Joseph Bruce Nelson (1940-2022)

by on July 16, 2022

Bruce Nelson was a great friend. I’ll never forget the first time I met him, in the Buttercup
Bakery on College Avenue in Berkeley, sometime in the late 1970s. Bruce came out of a
different ethno-class background than me, he had been in a different political sect, and he had
actually “industrialized,” which gave him enormous street cred in both of our circles.

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