Like other national labor history associations, the Labor and Working- Class History Association (LAWCHA) has experienced the shifting tides of globalization in labor history, both intellectually and organizationally. Many of us try to situate our scholarship in a transnational and comparative context in ways that highlight the forces of global capitalism, the transnational migration of workers over centuries, the historical patterns of international labor organization and solidarity, and the responses of workers to the restructuring of a global economy under neoliberal regimes. The invigorating effects on our field have been notable as historians and scholars in a range of disciplines have created common ground for collaborative investigations, organized conferences, published collections of essays or documentary sources, and realigned journals to reflect these transnational shifts.
It must be pointed out that transnational investigations and international collaborations are not new in the field of labor history or in labor activism and organization....
