LABORThe official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)Winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ Best New Journal award for 2005LABOR is published quarterly by Duke University Press. Individual subscribers and institutions with electronic access can
Kenneth Germanson, president emeritus of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, shares with LAWCHA his article on the USW’s recent 70-year anniversary (photo gallery).
In late April the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians convened in Milwaukee with a program that, thanks to the inspiration of Alice Kessler Harris and the hard work of the OAH program committee and its co-chair Nancy
Ken Germanson, President Emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society If there was any thought that history is irrelevant in today’s world, that was dispelled at the 31st Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Labor History Society held April 21 in Milwaukee.
LRAN is aimed to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars and students. It is also to connect scholars with practicioners in order to form a more cohesive organizing
LAWCHA members and labor activists around the country are uniting against a recently proposed legislative ban on Michigan universities collaborating with a worker center. Read on for information on what you can do to stop it.
With a constant influx of new members and the continuance of a long tradition of labor organizing, the Labor and Working-Class History Association and its multigenerational membership bear witness to the full range of life’s ups and downs, from the
Seattle, WA — With the slow recovery from the Great Recession still underway, unemployment in the United States remains at levels not seen for decades. Benefits dwindle; foreclosures loom. Perhaps worst of all, hope runs short. Millions are left feeling
Crisis and Working Class Resistance: Solidarity in Global/Local Contexts 2012 Southwest Labor Studies Association conference Thursday May 17-Friday May 18 UC-Riverside Workers and working class communities locally and globally are facing a historic crisis in their living and working conditions.
In September, 2011 a small group of protesters gathered on Wall Street to protest growing inequality in the United States. It has since become a national and international movement. LAWCHA members have written about and been involved in various aspects