When 30,000 workers walked out of Lawrence’s textile mills in the dead of a New England winter in January 1912, they launched an epic confrontation between capital and labor. With immigrant women playing a central role, the strike gained national prominence.

The weekend of March 24-26, 2011 there will be a variety of activities sponsored
by dozens of organizations and unions to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, March 25, 1911, in which 146 young workers lost
their lives and which forever changed the relationship of American government to the
workplace.

Registration is now open for the SLSA Conference, Memory and
Forgetting: Labor History and the Archive, April 7 to April 10, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia.

This conference is co-sponsored by LAWCHA.

For more information, see the www.southernlaborstudies.org.

The preliminary schedule for LAWCHA events at the Triangle fire commemoration is out! The following itinerary focuses on the LAWCHA events at the Triangle Fire Commemoration, March 24-26, 2011. Full information for other these and other events can be found at Remember the Triangle Fire: rememberthetrianglefire.org

The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference is organized by graduate students in labor history from different university campuses in the Midwest. The conference has been meeting annually each spring since the mid-1990s, hosted each year by participating graduate students from one of the campuses.