As I write, I’m wrapping up my work as president of LAWCHA and preparing to hand matters over to the inimitable William Jones. He will be assisted by our incoming vice president, Cindy Hahamovitch, our continuing treasurer, Liesl Orenic, and incoming secretary, Erik Gellman. This is a formidable team, and I’m excited to see LAWCHA continue its ambitious agenda: teaching, researching, writing, and organizing to ensure maximal public and scholarly understanding of working men and women’s history and to support their ongoing struggles. LAWCHA is critical to keeping workers’ voices an important part of the body politic, and for supporting the work we all do as teachers and writers.
It is strange to think, now, that LAWCHA did not exist until the late 1990s. As important as labor history was from the 1960s onward, no unified association brought together those teaching and researching in the field. We had the journal...
