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.
- by James Gregory
- July 1, 2017
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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was.
- by Allison L. Hurst
- June 20, 2017
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After Paycheck Taxes
I am a public employee. And what is worse, I work at a university. Mine is a public university sucking the lifeblood out.
- by David Obringer
- June 6, 2017
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Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services.
- by Sarah Attfield
- May 15, 2017
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Collection Spotlight: Collective Bargaining Agreements Online
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Cornell University’s ILR School is pleased to announce the digitization of over 2800 collective.
- by Kheel Center
- May 9, 2017
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Mr. Trump and the Super-Person Tax Rate
Working people who felt forgotten or ignored by the government voted for a change. What used to be a fairly solid voting block.
- by David Obringer
- May 9, 2017
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Find and Follow Your North Star
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has now won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction, and it’s a fitting choice.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 25, 2017
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African Labor Migrants, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
Seventeen years ago, Chris Muwani migrated from Zimbabwe to South Africa, where he works on a tomato farm. If he does not fulfill.
- by Tula Connell
- April 21, 2017
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The Working Class at the Oscars
A scene in Denzel Washington’s movie of Fences is not in August Wilson’s original play, and it illustrates how a spate of Oscar-nominated.
- by Jack Metzgar
- April 15, 2017