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
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
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.
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
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
Organizing for Power: A New Labor Movement for the New Working Class Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2014. Proposals are due December 15.
University professors in Ireland are leading a campaign that links concerns for their work with a concern for education as a public good.
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.
This past summer, I organized a LaborOnline forum on “Campus Labor and the Corporate University” (July 9, 2013), which featured commentary from James R. Barrett, professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and
In This Issue The Common Verse Robin Clarke, “Untitled (The Mine Collapsed Under)“ LAWCHA Watch Rosemary Feurer, “LAWCHA and the Lesson Plan“ Contemporary Affairs Tom Alter, ““It Felt Like Community”: Social Movement Unionism and the Chicago Teachers Union Strike of