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Labor History and History of Science: Better Together | LAWCHA
The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts and Alexandra Hui, editors of History of Science and Isis respectively, had noticed that scholars in their subfield were increasingly interested in labor, and they wondered if labor historians were giving any thought to science in turn.
Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine | LAWCHA
On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of Serene built around the Columbine coalmine, killing six striking coalminers and wounding dozens of protestors (the exact number is disputed to this day).
Did your professor make you uncomfortable? There's a law for that! | LAWCHA
Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University, analyzes Indiana’s new law, SEA 202. The law, due to go into effect in June calls DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)-centered teaching, research, scholarship, and hiring practices into question and makes free speech the basis for all DEI-related challenges.
Resistance to the Casualization of Academic Labor, A View From the UK | LAWCHA
This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for three months, thanks to Duke University Press. The first post is here. I thought it was an important contribution given the uptick of graduate student, faculty and undergraduate organizing.
A Seat at the Table – Update Part 3 | LAWCHA
This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for three months, thanks to Duke University Press. The first post is here. I thought it was an important contribution given the uptick of graduate student, faculty and undergraduate organizing.
Shades of Internationalism - The Left’s Complex Relationship with Immigration | LAWCHA
Lucas Poy writes about the questions and some of the conclusions of his recently published essay in Labor: Studies of Working Class History on the World Migration Congress of 1926, organized by left-wing labor leaders and social democrats. How have socialists and labor leaders in the “global north” approached the subject of migration?
Following the Footsteps of Jack O’Dell | LAWCHA
On the frosty morning of January 13, 2024, the student union building at the University of Washington (UW) was buzzing with the joy of reunion as longtime friends, students, and comrades of Jack O’Dell (1923-2019) gathered to attend “Reckoning with the Black Radical Tradition,” a conference held in honor of O’Dell. The event was hosted by the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, a center dedicated to the advancement of all working peoples. A trusted advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and
Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite | LAWCHA
This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for three months, thanks to Duke University Press. The first post is here. I thought it was an important contribution given the uptick of graduate student, faculty and undergraduate organizing.
Max Fraser on his new book, Hillbilly Highway | LAWCHA
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class explores one of the most significant and under-examined migrations in American history: the vast movement of poor and working-class white southerners between the economically ravaged South and the towns and cities of the industrial Midwest. Author Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.
Social Dirt and Precarious Academia Before the Law | LAWCHA
Claire Raymond weighs in with a searing commentary on her experiences as an adjunct, contingent laborer in academia. This is the second blog post that introduces the important themes and issues highlighted in the new edited collection Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education.In the time since I wrote a Southern Labor Studies conference paper on the adjunct predicament and social dirt – the short paper that became the genesis of my chapter “Social Dirt, Liminality, and the
New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969 | LAWCHA
This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which is freely available for three months, thanks to Duke University Press. The first post is here. I thought it was an important contribution given the uptick of graduate student, faculty and undergraduate organizing.