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Category Archives: labor history
Q&A with Dana M. Caldemeyer, Author of Union Renegades
in american history, authors, labor history, Q&A
Tagged labor studies, unions, Working Class Americans
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Dana M. Caldemeyer, author of Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age answers questions about her influences, discoveries, and common misconceptions while writing her book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I started researching … Continue reading
Celebrating Alice Kessler-Harris and welcoming Thavolia Glymph to the WCAH series
in announcement, labor history
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This month the Working Class in American History series is saying farewell to Alice Kessler-Harris, who is retiring from the series after 35 years, as well as welcoming Thavolia Glymph as a new series editor. Dr. Kessler-Harris is the R. … Continue reading
Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Call for Papers
in announcement, Gutman Prize, labor history
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The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, established in cooperation with the University of Illinois Press. LAWCHA encourages the study of working people, their … Continue reading
Q&A with Donald W. Rogers, Author of Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO
in american history, author commentary, authors, interviews, labor history, law, new books, Q&A
Tagged American history, authors on issues, interviews, labor history, labor studies, law, Q&A, Supreme Court, UIP authors
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Donald W. Rogers, author of Workers against the City, answers questions about the labor movement, American history, free speech, CIO v. Hague, and civil liberties. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Free speech and assembly law are … Continue reading
Q&A with Betsy Wood, Author of Upon the Altar of Work
in american history, labor history, Q&A
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Author of Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism, Betsy Wood answers questions about her influences, discoveries, and motivations for writing her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this … Continue reading
Q&A with Montse Feu, Author of Fighting Fascist Spain
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Montse Feu recently answered some questions about her book, Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press. She is also a co-editor of the recent UIP book Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. Q: Why did you … Continue reading
Get a Free Ebook of Disaster Citizenship by Jacob A.C. Remes
in all things digital, american history, eBooks, labor history
Tagged eBooks, giveaway, Working Class Americans
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May’s free eBook is here! For this entire month only we’re giving away Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era by Jacob A. C. Remes! In the Progressive Era the working class citizens of the U.S. and … Continue reading
Q&A with Jason G. Strange, author of Shelter from the Machine
in Appalachian studies, author commentary, authors, labor history, Q&A
Tagged capitalism, economy, homesteading
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Jason G. Strange, author of Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism, answers questions about his why he chose to write about homesteaders and influences from his favorite books. Q: Why did you decide to write this … Continue reading
Peter Cole wins Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for “Dockworker Power”
in African American Studies, american history, authors, awards, black studies, labor history
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We are pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole was a co-winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, awarded by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and … Continue reading
Alina R. Méndez Wins 2019 Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation
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Tagged Gutman Prize
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We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 LAWCHA (Labor and Working Class History Association) Gutman Prize! Congratulations to Alina R. Méndez, whose dissertation titled “Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and Social Reproduction in the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Borderlands, 1942-1969” will be … Continue reading