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
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
Call for Papers, Workshops and Presentations for the 2012 Conference, to be held in Tacoma, Washington May 18 – 20.
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
LAWCHA member and newsletter editor Rosemary Feurer attended the protests in West Virginia to save historic Blair Mountain.
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
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