Membership list is back!
After a long period of downtime for the membership list, we have finally fixed it!
Read more →After a long period of downtime for the membership list, we have finally fixed it!
Read more →The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, established in cooperation with the University of Illinois Press. LAWCHA encourages the study of working people, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, activism, and societal contexts.
Read more →The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality, and we demand justice. We stand in solidarity with all who are in the streets to protest racist policing and with the thousands who have been attacked by police in the past week.
Read more →LAWCHA’s Teaching Labor’s Story project has an answer – NEW to the TLS project: Thematic Threads.
Read more →LAWCHA is proud to be able to offer eight travel grants ($300) to students, contingent faculty, and independent scholars presenting at the 2020 OAH in Washington DC.
Read more →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 book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.
Read more →In recent months we have taken action to end the shipping of print copies of Labor by FedEx in any capacity.
Read more →Paper submissions are now open!
Read more →As more and more new history graduates pursue careers outside academia—out of choice or necessity—and with many scholars now part of the “gig economy,” the LAWCHA Board is taking steps to reach out to this diverse and growing cohort.
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