Blake Perkins on His New Book, Hillbilly Hellraisers
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with J. Blake Perkins’s new book Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist.
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Don’t Forget to Renew Your Membership!
It’s that time of the year again, LAWCHA members! Have you remembered to renew your membership? Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- November 6, 2017
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Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017)
Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived —.
- by Daniel Graff
- November 2, 2017
Call for Proposals
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Call for Gutman Prize Submissions: Deadline January 1, 2018
Eligible dissertations must be in English and defended in the academic year 2016-17 (September 1, 2016-August 31, 2017). Applicants are not required to.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 30, 2017
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Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists
Usually I fear that the enterprise we call social media presages worldwide doom, but once in a great while I find it promises.
- by Daniel Graff
- October 18, 2017
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Emily Twarog on her new book, Politics of the Pantry
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Emily E. LB. Twarog’s Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food,.
- by Jacob Remes
- October 13, 2017
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Calling Luther to a Labor Ethic
October 31, 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s defiant act of protest against the Church. What does this distant anniversary.
- by Ken Estey
- October 4, 2017
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Race AND Class, Then and Now
Just a few days after white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, my husband and I went to see Kathryn Bigelow’s film, Detroit. Set amid.
- by Sherry Linkon
- September 15, 2017
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Valuing a Lost Work Culture
Late last fall I visited Stoke-on Trent, a city in the North-West of England which was once the epicentre of the UK’s huge.
- by Tim Strangleman
- September 1, 2017
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home.
- by Helen Diana Eidson
- August 19, 2017