Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights
Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am.
Events
Labor History
LAWCHA
Labor History
LAWCHA
Preview of “Love & Solidarity”
Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Rev. James Lawson’s discourse.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 20, 2016
Events
Labor History
Jim Green’s book on PBS, “The American Experience,” January 26
On January 26 from 9-11 pm more than 200 PBS stations will broadcast “The Mine Wars” in the premier show of The American.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 3, 2016
Activism
Labor History
OAH Issues Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty
At its November 2015 Executive Board meeting, the Organization of American Historians (OAH), passed a resolution endorsing “the principle that collective bargaining can.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 3, 2016
Labor History
Opportunity
History of Capitalism Summer Camp – Price Reduced to $600
The History of Capitalism Summer Camp has had its price reduced to $600 thanks to a number of generous grants. Applications due January.
- by Ryan Poe
- December 17, 2015
Labor History
Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists
How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his.
- by Chad Pearson
- December 1, 2015
Call for Proposals
Labor History
WCSA Awards Nominations (Deadline: January 15, 2016)
The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) invites nominations (including selfnominations) for awards covering the year of 2015. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- November 19, 2015
Labor History
Working History Podcast: Religion’s Role in Organizing the South
SLSA’s latest Working History podcast, “Religion’s Role in Organizing the South,“ is available for listening on iTunes and SoundCloud. In the episode, Professor.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 7, 2015
Articles
Labor History
LaborOnline
The Million Man March at Twenty: Revisiting a Spectacle of “Atonement,” Class Stewardship, and Patriarchy
The Million Man March commemorates its twentieth-year anniversary this month, which historians argue had problematic racial, class, and gender politics. Clarence Lang explores.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 16, 2015
Labor History
Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett
For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality..
- by Randi Storch
- September 25, 2015