Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz, Familiar Stranger: a Life Between Two Islands. Duke University Press, 2017. 271pp, $29.95 pbk Stuart Hall, Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays. Duke University Press, 20917. 360pp, $27.95 pbk 1956:
Advocacy activities articulating the value of archives can be an important component of inreach and outreach activities. Effective advocacy requires that archivists make consistent and explicit arguments for the value of our collections.
In This Issue Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction
It is with a heavy heart that I forward the news that Judith Stein has passed away after a long struggle with cancer. A dedicated member of LAWCHA, she was a Distinguished Professor of History at City College and Graduate
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services and the NHS were underfunded, and attacks were launched against unions (as a result of the miners’
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Cornell University’s ILR School is pleased to announce the digitization of over 2800 collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) which are freely available via Catherwood Library’s open access institutional repository DigitalCommons@ilr.
A scene in Denzel Washington’s movie of Fences is not in August Wilson’s original play, and it illustrates how a spate of Oscar-nominated films this year uncharacteristically reveal basic insights into working-class ways of living a life.
In trying to make sense of the surprising 2016 election — Who were Trump’s supporters? Were they motivated by the politics of pocketbooks, race, or fear? And what lessons should Republicans, Democrats, and political activists draw as they move forward?
April 2017 marks the 100th year anniversary of U.S. entrance into World War I. Doubtless most of the commemorations of this event will focus on the significant legacies of the war for international political configurations and for the future U.S.
In This Issue Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink, “Editor’s Introduction