At the recent LAWCHA conference here in Washington, D.C., I was among those applauding heartily when Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven Beckert’s sweeping study, received the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. It’s worth taking a look at
On May 25, 2015, weather conditions forced the cancelation of a flight from Atlanta to Boston. One of the flight’s intended passengers was Malcolm Butler, defensive back for the New England Patriots, best known for his game winning interception in
Originally posted October 16th, 2014. Written by Dallas Pillen, Archives Technician at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. Bruce Duncan “Utah” Phillips (1935-2008) was one of the most prominent members of the
Originally posted at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. May 19, 2011. Written by Kristen Chinery, Reference Archivist. On May 26, 1937, nearly sixty UAW members from Local 174 arrived at Ford
Drawing 450 registrants and featuring 3 days of exciting and informative panels the first joint LAWCHA-WCSA conference was a huge success. Thanks to all attended “Fighting Inequality” at Georgetown last week and made the formal sessions and informal discussions so
This is the official bibliography for LAWCHA’s Teaching and Public Sector Unionism initiative. A full listing of our resources can be found on the Teaching Resources page. For an overview of teachers’ unions, see our featured article, “A Century of
By Shel Stromquist and Cecelia Bucki (with assistance from Tom Klug), March 2015.LAWCHA grew out of conversations among labor historians over the course of a couple of years between 1996 and 1998 about the importance of giving labor history greater
In This Issue Guest Editors’ Introduction Susan Levine and Steve Striffler, “From Field to Table in Labor History“ This special issue of Labor challenges historians to think about food and work in ways that not only include the production of
In This Issue Articles Jarod Roll, “Sympathy for the Devil: The Notorious Career of Missouri’s Strikebreaking Metal Miners, 1896–1910“ Between 1896 and 1910, miners from the zinc and lead district around Joplin, Missouri, worked as strikebreakers in almost every strike
May 28-29, 2015. As part of the Society of American Archivists Labor Archives Roundtable’s ongoing efforts to coordinate with LAWCHA, two conference sessions and several archival repository open houses will be on the LAWCHA 2015 conference program this year.