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Nativism Needs Fake History

Stephen Miller is the latest clone of Ann Coulter offered the public by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Mark Lausewww.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/history/fac_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=MjY4Mjk%3D

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The Dual Economy

In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class, MIT economist Peter Temin provides a short and accessible take on this country’s deeply unequal.

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The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think

To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored.

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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South

While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My.

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LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap

The Scales of Struggle conference featured the largest program of any LAWCHA conference to date features nearly 100 panels, workshops, films, and performances,.

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Mass Incarceration and the Working Class – LAWCHA Conference 2017

At the 2017 LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, a world-class panel of experts discussed the affects of mass incarceration on the working class. Featured.

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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s.

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Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital

One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined.

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Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners

Congratulations to our 2017 prize and award winners, announced formally at the 2017 Annual LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now

Amy Goodman spoke with Duke University historian and former LAWCHA president Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep.

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