James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized festa of songs, politics, and labor histories. For a text of the speech, visit the Cork Mother
This is a different and expanded version of a previously published essay that appeared in Jacobin. Dinkytown’s Best Breakfast If you are in Minneapolis, after a hard day’s night, the place to go for a morning pick-me-up is Al’s Breakfast.
A year ago, community leaders, citizen archaeologists, historians, labor leaders and other volunteers who care about the history in our hills came together around an idea to open a museum that tells a people’s history of the West Virginia Mine
In 1886, several prominent European socialists came through Cincinnati in search of insights into America. Their local comrades–“delightful German-American friends” took them to a local dime museum. There, a showman introduced cowboys with “stereotyped speeches about them,” as his subjects
The Time for a Raise Campaign at the Center for Study of Responsive Law is sending a sign-on letter to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO and perhaps Walmart’s most famous board member. There has been a growing groundswell of pressure to
Original posted in Jacobin on September 2, 2014. Eric Hoffer was a conservative who only had the time to write because he was represented by a powerful leftist union.
In an effort to update and expand tools for Labor Archives Roundtable members and our users, the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists has been working on new projects of interest to LAWCHA members.
In This Issue The Common Verse Hugh Martin, “Iraq War, 2004” LAWCHA Watch James N. Gregory, “Advancing the Ivory-Collar/Blue-Collar Partnership” Up for Debate Eric Arnesen, “Introduction” Nancy MacLean, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Difference a Law Can Make”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. It is difficult because the details of the case have evolved
Lee A. Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), recently announced that his union is severing ties with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), effective September 1. For about a decade, the two organizations