The National Center is pleased to announce that online registration has begun for a higher education labor-management conference on December 1-2, 2017 at California State University, Long Beach. The conference will include labor-management panels on timely subjects relating to universities, colleges, and community colleges.
Read more →The Labor and Working Class History Association, an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators and activists, welcomes individual and session proposals for the 2017 LAWCHA conference in Seattle, June 23-25. The conference theme will be Scales of Struggle: Communities, Movements, and Global Connections.
Read more →The Labor Resource Center and many friends and family of Jim Green will be gathering to celebrate Jim’s life and work at 2 pm on Saturday, November 12, at the Carpenter’s union hall (750 Dorchester Ave, Boston MA), and we hope you can join us.
Read more →The 2017 WCSA conference theme, “Class Struggle: Race, Gender, and Revolution,” seeks to take stock of the legacy, present, and future possibilities of the idea of “class struggle.” We invite proposals for individual papers, panels, plenary sessions, or cultural events that will investigate the myriad ways in which the working classes can fight for emancipation.
Read more →Register now for the 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference, which will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th at the DePaul University’s Loop Campus located in downtown Chicago, IL. The DePaul University Labor Education Center will host the conference.
Read more →CFP Deadline: May 20, 2016. The 38th annual North American Labor History Conference will explore the connections between labor and urban history, workers and city-dwellers, in the context of globalization. We are interested in how “work,” “workers,” and “cities” remake and are remade by the global economy and by the dangers inherent in new global realities—where migration and exchange are seen both as constructive and destructive of urban life.
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Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am (#oah 16_63). The panel, entitled “Nonviolence Leadership: The Life and Times of Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.,” will feature Michael Honey, Dennis Dickerson, and Frances Jones-Sneed.
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On January 26 from 9-11 pm more than 200 PBS stations will broadcast “The Mine Wars” in the premier show of The American Experience series for 2016.
Read more →LAWCHA program committee member Ken Fones-Wolf requests that LAWCHA members who will be submitting session proposals for the 2017 AHA (Denver) and/or the 2017 Berkshire Conference (Hempstead, New York) please CC or otherwise forward Ken ([email protected]) a copy of their proposal.
Read more →The ELHN was founded in October 2013 in Amsterdam as a network of labour historians in order to bring together scholars with different institutional backgrounds (institutes, associations, archives, journals, study groups, individual researchers, etc.) and serve as an umbrella organization for smaller working groups with specific topics and tasks.
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