Clik here to view.
Postindustrial Noir: Assessing The Wire
Editors Note: Duke University Press allows us free access to one selected journal article or forum published in each issue of Labor: Working Class History of the Americas. This issue had a roundtable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Howard Zinn’s Greatest Error
Shortly after Howard Zinn’s death in January 2010, the Occupy movement took to the streets, many of its most vocal proponents brandishing his People’s History of the United States. They seized upon his...
View ArticleLabor historian Bob Korstad on “why I chose to be arrested”
On May 6, Bob Korstad joined civil rights activists, 2 former presidents of the Organization of American Historians and other concerned citizens to protest the North Carolina legislature moves...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A “Death” the Whole World Should See
I saw a fascinating documentary recently at a local film festival. The name of it is “A Band Called Death,” and it is scheduled for a wider release this summer. Directed by Jeff Howlett and Mark...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time for Truth and Reconciliation by the AFL-CIO?
A remarkable commemoration occurred recently in Winston-Salem, North Carolina–a tribute to the connections forged between civil rights and unionism 70 years ago. Even as the North Carolina legislature...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond the Right: Anti-Unionism and Reform
A clear-eyed assessment of current attacks against organized labor reveal that the “right”—the Republican Party and its electoral, financial, and ideological supporters—is not the exclusive source of...
View ArticleLAWCHA Watch: Recap of the 2013 National Conference
How have working people developed solidarity and power to confront employers and the state, to struggle with each over and within their communities, to enhance rights and extend the arc of justice? How...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor” Session, LAWCHA...
The 2013 LAWCHA national conference ended with a closing session held at Cooper Union Hall on Saturday, June 4th at 4:30. The closing plenary, entitled “Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Labor Needs to Ally with LGBTQ Activists
What should the labor movement do after the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights and Defense of Marriage Acts? There has been talk of course of an alliance between civil rights and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hunger strike in Philadelphia enters 12th day
Philadelphia is now witnessing the 12th day of a hunger strike among workers and parents protesting the draconian Philadelphia school district budget plan passed last month. At the center are the...
View ArticleCampus Labor and the Corporate University: A LaborOnline Forum
Clarence Lang, Forum Organizer: Since the late 1970s, neoliberalism has emerged as the main political-economic organizing principle in the United States and globally. Characterized by deregulation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cruel Summer
Events this summer have further demonstrated a cruel irony of African American life in the glare of the nation’s first black presidency. Specifically, Barack Obama’s historic two administrations have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
100 Years Later: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Country Strike
This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the beginning of the great Michigan Copper Strike, one of the longest and most violent labor conflicts of the early twentieth century. Beginning July 23,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Power of a Labor Movement
The Plenary session of the New York conference of LAWCHA featured an impressive panel of speakers, ticking off a succession of depressing observations about the state of the labor movement, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LAWCHA Conference 2013: Chicago Teachers Union Panel
June’s LAWCHA conference was my first. I had an excellent time, presented my work on a successful panel about blue-green alliances, and a chaired a really great panel on the 100th anniversary of the...
View ArticleCFP: Food and Work (Deadline: October 1)
Susan Levine and Steve Striffler send a call for papers for a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas entitled “Food and Work.” Food studies has become an important...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama’s Phoenix comments call for reflection on class and housing issues
Phoenix was perhaps the worst choice for Barack Obama’s recent speech on his plans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. To many, the Arizona capital epitomizes the recent housing crisis, when predatory...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Opportunities for Defiance”: Embracing Guerilla History and Moving Beyond...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Working Class Access to Education Blocked by Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College has officially announced plans to end the Urban Policy & Administration (UPA) program at the Graduate Center for Workers Education (GCWE). For over thirty years the UPA at GCWE has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teaching about Collective Bargaining–the case of Flint Michigan
This summer I had the privilege of co-coordinating an NEH Landmark grant at one of the Great Camps in the Adirondacks. Over a two-week period, I got to know eighty teachers as we thought about the...
View Article
