After working several years at an auto parts factory outside Bangkok, Prasit Prasopsuk compared conditions at his workplace with those of a friend employed at a similar plant—and realized his wages were lower and working conditions worse because there was
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Jessica Ziparo’s new book, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C., which the University of North Carolina Press published in December.
The fight to reinstate contingent faculty activist Georgette Fleischer continues. Fleischer was let go after 17 years of teaching and service at Barnard College. LAWCHA’s contingent faculty committee called for support and messages this summer. We do so again.
In November 2016, Iowa Republicans erased a slim Democratic majority in that state’s Senate, giving the party “trifecta” control of both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office. The moment the gavel struck to start the new legislative session
We welcome scholars from any discipline interested in presenting on topics that fit the theme, broadly defined. The colloquium is open to scholars, public historians, graduate students, and activists presenting on contemporary and historical topics.
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, aspects of how unionized faculty in community colleges have attempted to deal with faculty contingency since the late 1980s may provide lines of sight and discussion that are not yet part of the
Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived — pop, rock, r&b, punk, etc.). As both a singles artist and an album maker, as a vocalist
The rise of contingent or precarious contracts within academic markets is the latest manifestation of the regulatory failures that bedevil delicately balanced apprenticeship institutions.
Unions exist in Tennessee, but they are hindered by the hostility of not just management but also by state government.
The complex history of Louisiana with a narrative that does not neatly fit into the 13 colony Anglo-American story has resulted in leaving much of Louisiana’s experiences out of the broader national narrative of US history.