Class(room) Warfare
The actress Felicity Huffman—along with 13 other parents charged in the college admissions scandal—entered plea deals last week, putting pressure on actress Lori.
LAWCHA
Call for Proposals
Labouring Lives and Political Protest Across and Beyond the Nordic Countries
Nordic labour history conferences have been organized by the labour history institutes of the Nordic countries since 1974. The last conference took place.
- by Eileen Boris
- March 25, 2019
Events
LaborOnline
LAWCHA at OAH
LAWCHA is pleased to have solicited and endorsed several panels at the 2019 OAH Conference in Philadelphia. We hope to see you there..
- by Jacob Remes
- March 18, 2019
LAWCHA
Jobs and Medicare for All
You can tell that Medicare for All is becoming a real possibility when it gets a rigorous cost-benefit analysis and when its advocates.
- by Jack Metzgar
- March 5, 2019
Activism
Events
Triangle Fire Memorial Collective Ribbon
I’m writing to you as President of the Board of Directors of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. For the past decade the Coalition.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 5, 2019
LAWCHA
Share the Wealth
There is a growing awareness that wealth inequality is directly affecting everyman. All politicians recite the pledge to help the middle class, republicans.
- by David Obringer
- February 21, 2019
LAWCHA
The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
The working class currently has remarkable visibility in US political culture. In defiance of a longstanding belief in America’s classlessness, even today’s sitting.
- by Robyn Muncy
- February 15, 2019
Call for Proposals
Opportunity
The New Populisms and the White Working Class: University of Michigan Press
This volume seeks papers that take the concept of white working class seriously, as both category and thing-in-itself, while focusing a critical gaze.
- by Carol Quirke
- February 10, 2019
OpEd
Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle.
- by Leon Fink
- February 6, 2019
LAWCHA
The Ghosts of Bisbee
Bisbee ‘17 is a documentary about an Arizona town facing its ghosts. In June 1917, when copper miners organized by the Industrial Workers of.
- by Mary Romero
- February 3, 2019