2014 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Colloquium. “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History.” University of Illinois at Chicago, Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014. Extended Deadline for Proposals: Friday, January 3, 2014; Deadline for Completed Papers: Friday, February 28, 2014.
Read more →I am pleased to announce the beginning of the annual competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2013 relating to the history of American labor. I invite your nomination of any and every eligible book for consideration.
Read more →The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) connects workers’ rights organizations, academics and students with the shared goal of building workplace and economic power for working people in the United States. One of the organization’s key objectives is to help develop the next generation of labor academics and scholars.
Read more →October 16-18, 2014, Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
The Program Committee of the NALHC, an international conference with global perspectives, invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, etc. on the theme of “The Nature of Work” for our thirty-sixth annual meeting. Other thematically related proposals will be considered, especially if part of a full panel or roundtable.
Read more →Class, Race and Corporate Power is an open-access, online academic journal examining the politics of corporate power. This includes an analysis of capital, labor, and race relations within nation-states and the global economy. We encourage contributions that explore these issues within holistic frameworks that borrow from a range of scholarly disciplines.
Read more →Organizing for Power: A New Labor Movement for the New Working Class Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2014. Proposals are due December 15.
Read more →The 44th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association (PNLHA) takes place in the historic village of Cumberland, B.C., June 13-15, 2014. Proposal deadline is December 13, 2013.
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