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Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces: A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History

ILWCH is soliciting articles for a special issue that will examine the history of unfree labor in carceral spaces within a global context..

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In Memoriam

David H. Bensman, 1950-2020

Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Professor David H. Bensman A champion for workers, Bensman mentored two generations of future labor activists, organizers, and.

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Call for Proposals Events

LAWCHA Conference: 2021 Call for Papers

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists, welcomes proposals for its 2021 conference.

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Labor History

A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932

An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to.

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Action Alerts LaborOnline LAWCHA

LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History

The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality,.

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Labor History Teaching Blog

Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story

Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New.

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Labor History LaborOnline

Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity

Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay  “Remapping the American Left:.

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Labor History

Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast

Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey, on “What Happened to Martin Luther.

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LaborOnline OpEd

Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones

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LaborOnline OpEd

When the Home Is a Workplace

In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.

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