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.
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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.
LAWCHA
The Perils of Faculty Speech: Revisiting Campus Labor and the Corporate University
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
Issues of Labor
Labor 10.3 (Fall, 2013)
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
Labor History
New Gravestone for Harry Kelly (1871-1953)
LAWCHA member Nathan Jun is interested in acquiring a new marker for the grave of our departed comrade Harry Kelly (1871-1953) at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, IL. Harry was an important member of the early 20th century American
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New Deal Era Labor Art Explored in Collaborative Project
Labor and New Deal Art: the Commemoration of the Little Steel Strike of 1937 is a wonderful resource for labor historians and teachers, especially those who like to use visuals to generate discussions in their classrooms. I’m teaching a course
In Memoriam
Robert Zieger, 1938 – 2013
LAWCHA mourns the loss of one of its founding members, Bob Zieger. Bob was one of LAWCHA’s first ever board members and has been with the organization since its founding in 1999. If you would like to contribute a remembrance,
Call for Proposals
CISH Congress Session, Jinan, “Commodifying Home Labor: Domestic Work Over Time” (Deadline: Nov. 30)
ST 28 “Commodifying Home Labor: Domestic Work Over Time” (Specialized theme). Cooking, cleaning, and caring are not naturally the work of women, but rather emerged as central components of household labor assigned to most women and to men from subordinate
Call for Proposals
Special Issue of ILWCH on Histories of Domestic Labor: Resistance and Organization (Deadline: November 15)
Guest Editors: Eileen Boris and Premilla Nadasen. This special issue of ILWCH will bring together historical research and writing on paid private household labor and conditions under which domestic workers in different locations and in different time periods were able
LAWCHA
“Opportunities for Defiance”: Embracing Guerilla History and Moving Beyond Scott Walker’s Wisconsin
This long submission is an essay submitted originally to Labor: Working Class Studies of the Americas from graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who are seeking to grapple with lessons and issues they took from battles in Wisconsin.