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Remembering Kent Wong, champion of worker rights and education

Kent Wong, long time Director of the UCLA Labor Center, passed away October 8 at the age of 69. He will be remembered.

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Tom Alter: Campaign for Reinstatement after Firing

LAWCHA has issued a powerful statement of support for LAWCHA member and historian Tom Alter, who was recently fired without due process from.

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Why Everything Is So Unaffordable

Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, recently won the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor by campaigning on the need to make.

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Political Economy at LAWCHA 2025

We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. If you.

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CIO Era Labor Lawyers

We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. In this.

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Assessing Worker Resistance and Municipal Union Complicity to the NYC Fiscal Crisis

We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. Mark Kagan.

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Sampling LAWCHA Sessions — Friday June 13

We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. If you.

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Opening Plenary: “Solidarity & Work in Chicago: Past and Present”

This year’s LAWCHA conference began with a reminder that we have come to a particular place, with a particular history: Chicago. Three scholars.

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David Montgomery’s Diverse and Transnational Working Class: a Model of Continuing Relevance?

This is one of a few  brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025..

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Zohran Mamdani and the History of Municipal Socialism

The stunning victory of self-identified “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic Party primary has sent a shock wave through the.

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