Thursday, December 19: The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents The Great Migration and Motown. Diego Rivera Theater, San Francisco City College, Ocean Campus (Phelan & Ocean), San Francisco. 7pm, free.
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 →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 →Friday, October 25, 2013. Lanyon, G74, Queen’s University Belfast. Speakers: Emmet O’Conner, Peter Bunting, John Gray, Brian Kelly, Michael Pierse, Christopher J.V. Loughlin, Sean Mitchell, and more. David Convery will launch his new book, Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life as part of the day’s events.
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.
Read more →Held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014 the annual Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium is announcing its call for papers. Proposals are due Monday, December 16, 2013, and completed papers are due Friday, February 28, 2014.
Read more →Session at the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 10 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm.
As the AFL-CIO and its affiliates contemplate the future of the labor movement, national labor leaders should look to the South for a glimpse of what that future might be.
Read more →October 19, 2013. A day conference to commemorate the Dublin Lockout in 1913. During this epic struggle an estimated 100,000 people, one third of the capital’s inhabitants, faced starvation for five months in a battle for workers’ rights. At Old Fire Station, Crescent, Salford.
Read more →July 14-25.
Join 25 other historians and get the skills you need to understand economic theory, interpret quantitative sources, make sense of corporate archives, and write the new history of capitalism from the bottom all the way to the top.
Read more →June 16-18. One of the principal goals of the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars, and students. A secondary goal is to connect practitioners employing innovative strategies with scholars who are interested in strategic research and advocacy efforts that support workers/the struggle for workers; rights.
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