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Subscribe today Email Address Too Much at Once?There is a lot going on at LAWCHA, from our multiple operating committees, to the cascade of events we host and promote, to LaborOnline, it can be overwhelming to keep up with what’s
LAWCHA
Right to Work a Man to Death
In 1958, an Indianapolis woman named Patricia Bolen wrote a letter to the Indianapolis Star about how Indiana’s right-to-work law affected her husband: “I pooh-poohed when the right-to-work was first called a mankiller. But it is. The man I love
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Call for Proposals
Labor History
CFP: UALE Student Conference, “Across Boundaries” (Deadline: Dec 1)
The United Association for Labor Education invites you and your colleagues to submit a proposal for our 2013 Annual Conference, “Across Boundaries: What Are Workers Saying and Doing?” April 17-20, 2013 at the Metropolitan Hotel Toronto, Ontario CANADA. DEADLINE: Proposals
Events (Old)
Labor History
North American Labor History Conference: Insurgency & Resistance
Insurgency & Resistance. Throughout history, workers have engaged in insurgency and resistance from factories to fields, from plantations to plants, from mines to mills, and in cities and in the countryside. Power and authority have been contested on a variety
Global Affairs Articles
Global Affairs Resources
Accessing Canada’s Labour History Through Museums
By Joan Sangster, Trent University. Canada is host to a rich, vibrant, and inspirational labour history housed in easily accessible archives and popular public museums across the county.
Action Alerts
Scholars in Support of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
The California Domestic Workers Coalition will be delivering our letter to Governor Brown’s office next Monday, so if you are willing, please sign this letter and forward the link to other interested colleagues, please do so as soon as you
Call for Proposals
Labor History
News
CFP: SLSA, The Many Souths (deadline: 9/14)
The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its (March 7-9) 2013 conference in New Orleans, LA. The conference theme, the “Many Souths,” invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it
Officers & Board Members
PresidentJoseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University Vice PresidentEileen Boris, University of California at Santa Barbara SecretaryErik Gellman, University of North Carolina Treasurer Liesl Miller Orenic, Dominican University Executive AssistantPatrick Dixon, Georgetown Universitylawcha.office@gmail.com Immediate Past President Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia Board of Directors
Constitution & Bylaws
LAWCHA-Constitution-revised-2021PreambleThe Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is open to everyone interested in studying the history of working-class men and women, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, political activities, and societal contexts. It aims to promote an international, theoretically