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Call for Proposals

CFP: Southwest Labor Studies Association’s “Crisis and Working Class Resistance” (Deadline: January 31)

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.

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“Occupy” Protests

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

Call for Proposals

CFP: How Class Works, SUNY (Deadline: December 12, 2011)

How Class Works, 2010 Call for Presentations A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012 The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works – 2012 Conference, to be held at the

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Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium Report

The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History colloquium (MLWCH) was held at the University of Iowa on April 15th and 16th, 2011, and it was a smashing success. Staughton and Alice Lynd joined graduate students in labor history from around the

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Blair Mountain Protests

LAWCHA member and newsletter editor Rosemary Feurer attended the protests in West Virginia to save historic Blair Mountain.

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Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference, April 15-16, Iowa City

The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference is organized by graduate students in labor history from different university campuses in the Midwest. The conference has been meeting annually each spring since the mid-1990s, hosted each year by participating graduate students

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A Time to Defend Labor and the Public Sector

Thanks to the leadership that workers in Wisconsin and other states took in the Spring of 2011, Americans seized the opportunity to change the debate about the fiscal crisis in the states, its origins, and the way it was being

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Campus Living Wage and Anti-Sweat Shop Campaigns

Students at various universities across the country are voicing their concerns over university apparel produced in sweat shops, over living wages for university employees and contractors, and for student and worker rights.