LAWCHA Move Boosts Independent Historians
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.
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The University of Iowa Labor Center Is Under Attack
The University of Iowa Labor Center is under attack. LAWCHA has mobilized to support the fight to keep it open. Jacob Remeswp.nyu.edu/remes
- by Jacob Remes
- July 22, 2018
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Former LAWCHA President Nancy MacLean Testifies in Senate Hearing
I was invited by Senators Whitehouse and Stabenow and the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to open a hearing entitled “After Janus v..
- by Nancy MacLean
- July 18, 2018
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Iowa’s Next Election: Bridging the Urban-Rural and Class Divide
My home state of Iowa famously gave Barack Obama a convincing victory in the Democratic caucuses in 2008, the first triumph that launched a.
- by Christopher R. Martin
- July 18, 2018
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This is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement
If there is going to be a revival of the U.S. labor movement, it’s likely that women are going to lead it. Lane.
- by Lane Windham
- July 2, 2018
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Working-Class Pride: Promise or Peril?
Pride in something seems to be a good thing to have. But pride can lead to prejudice. And it can also lead to displacement and.
- by Ken Estey
- June 29, 2018
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How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants
President Trump’s recent visit to Southern California to view prototypes for his much-touted border wall drew protests and new pledges by immigrants and.
- by Carl Lindskoog
- June 18, 2018
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The Sweat of Their Face: Exhibition Review, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, through September 3, 2018
I came in through the back entrance. It offered a clue to one strength of The Sweat of their Face: Portraying American Workers,.
- by Carol Quirke
- June 15, 2018
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Call for Papers: LAWCHA’s 2019 Conference
The Labor and Working-Class History Association’s 2019 Call for Papers Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements Duke University, May 30-June 1, 2019 Jacob.
- by Jacob Remes
- May 30, 2018
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New Book Interviews
Christo Aivalis on His New Book, The Constant Liberal
LaborOnline’s no-longer-quite-monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. Christo Aivalis’s The Constant Liberal: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian.
- by Jacob Remes
- May 3, 2018