Labor and the Digital Landscape: An Update
When “Connecting the Dots: Labor and the Digital Landscape” went to press at LABOR (15:3), the wave of union organizing and activism in the media industry was just gaining ground.
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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 economy,” the LAWCHA Board is taking steps to reach out to this diverse and growing cohort.
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Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
October 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor Organization (ILO).
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The University of Iowa Labor Center and the Attacks on Labor
The attacks on labor these days take many forms. Some are straight-forward and brutally confrontational—the Janus ruling or the state legislation in Iowa and Wisconsin and elsewhere that follow a similar script in their attack on labor’s position of strength
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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.
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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 young U.S. senator from Illinois to become the first African-American president. Obama ultimately won two terms, and
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Events
Dis-Organized/De-Organized/Reorganized: Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Graduate Colloquium
The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Graduate Colloquium met on May 26th, 2018 at the University of Iowa, where it was founded by graduate students of Professor Shelton Stromquist almost twenty years ago. Hosted by Ph.D. students Ashley H.
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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 erasure. For many, President Trump’s promise on Inauguration Day, that “From this moment on, it’s going to be
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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 their supporters to fight his anti-immigrant policies. But in February, the Supreme Court handed immigration rights advocates
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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, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (through September 3 2018). Greeting me was Ramiro