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Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?

Academe is a privileged place.  It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds.  Its hierarchical.

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Remembering the Last Great Strike this Memorial Day

On the afternoon of Memorial Day, 1937, at least 1,500 striking steel workers and their supporters marched across a sun-drenched field in the.

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Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed

For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.

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The Easter Rising 100 years on: How the Irish revolution fired up American politics

On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost.

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When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)

Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.

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French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week

French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s.

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AFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary

Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose.

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LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network

The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015..

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Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History

Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,.

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The Archivist’s Nook: Introduction to American Catholic Archives

Before the 1960s, almost no dioceses had more than part-time archivists, only a few Catholic colleges and universities devoted much attention or resources.

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