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BC Labor Heritage Centre Call for Articles and Papers: Deadline October 10

The B.C. Labour Heritage Centre is an independent not-for-profit historical society with charity status, working to preserve and expand the knowledge of the.

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Labor History

Working History: Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South

In this episode of the SLSA’s Working History podcast, Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a current fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the.

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Labor History

Solidarity Forever! When Labor Had Its Day, And Why Its Time Has Come Again

For the last century, Labor Day events have served primarily as occasions for politicians to make their pitches. But at the height of.

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Labor History Teaching Blog

(Updated) Patrick S. O’Donnell, The World of Work and Labor Law: A Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell has updated his monumental bibliography on the labor movement to account for the year 2015. “This bibliography,” writes the author,.

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Labor History LAWCHA

David Montgomery Award Submissions Open: October 1, 2015 Deadline

The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best.

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Labor History

Preserving & Donating Union Records

Many labor organizations already have good records management systems but want to know which types of records to donate to the LAW, which.

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Call for Proposals Labor History

The Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize: Deadline, September 1, 2015

The New York Labor History Association is pleased to announce this Call for Entries for the First Annual Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism.

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Labor History

Empire of Cotton Still Based on Violence

At the recent LAWCHA conference here in Washington, D.C., I was among those applauding heartily when Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven.

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Labor History

From Worker Education Center to Hedge Fund and State Department Cabal: An Open Call to Struggle Against an Obscene Transformation

Dear friends and supporters of Worker Education: After more than three years of the collective efforts by The Committee of Concerned Alumni, Students,.

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Labor History

Baltimore Steel Stories

This is the first video for the Baltimore Steel Stories Project out of Towson University’s Anthropology Department. About half of the material used.

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