Five Ideas for Digital Labor History
Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives.
LAWCHA
Events (Old)
LAWCHA at the AHA: Dinner with Karen Nussbaum
LAWCHA dinner with Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Working America, to be held Friday, January 3rd at 7 p.m. at the Café Dupont at the Dupont Circle Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, 20036.
OpEd
Jessican Wilkerson, “Remembering the Mothers Who Fought for Food Assistance”
I recently had a conversation with a family member—let’s call her Sally—who is convinced that our cousin, who is poor and struggles with drug addiction, got pregnant so that she could receive more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, or
Call for Proposals
Taft Prize Deadline Sunday, December 15
I am pleased to announce the beginning of the annual competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2013 relating to the history of American labor. I invite your
Events (Old)
Bay Area: The Great Migration and Motown
Thursday, December 19: The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents The Great Migration and Motown. Diego Rivera Theater, San Francisco City College, Ocean Campus (Phelan & Ocean), San Francisco. 7pm, free.
LAWCHA
Jobs With Justice: 25 years of trying to transform Gompersism in the labor movement
These days, successful labor activity among the unorganized seems to depend, in ever greater degree, upon “faith based organizing,” union efforts interfacing with the constituencies of churches and the occasional synagogue. If this is a major trend, it surely begins
Call for Proposals
Labor History
Open Access Journal Class, Race and Corporate Power Seeking Submissions
Class, Race and Corporate Power is an open-access, online academic journal examining the politics of corporate power. This includes an analysis of capital, labor, and race relations within nation-states and the global economy. We encourage contributions that explore these issues
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
UALE 2014 Annual Conference, “Organizing for Power”
Organizing for Power: A New Labor Movement for the New Working Class Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2014. Proposals are due December 15.
LAWCHA
Defend the Irish University Campaign—A call for Solidarity
University professors in Ireland are leading a campaign that links concerns for their work with a concern for education as a public good.
Labor History
People
Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)
The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.