... © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012 A N N O U N C EM EN T Call for Papers: “The Many Souths,” 2013 Southern Labor Studies Association Conference The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its conference, March – , in New Orleans, LA...

... Lawcha Rights, Solidarity, and Justice: LAWCHA’s National Conference Shelton Stromquist, President, LAWCHA, and Immanuel Ness, Co­chair, Conference Program Committee LAWCHA’s 2013 national conference convenes in New York City on June 6 – ​8 with a robust program of plenary...

...Leon Fink Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: An Introduction to the Newberry Conference Leon Fink This special...

..., from the outset the Communist influence on the NNC's formation and operation was considerable — even decisive — and that after the signing of the 1939 Hitler‐Stalin Pact, the party's new antiwar stance and its numerical dominance at the NNC's third conference in 1940 led to the collapse of the Popular...

...Heather Wilpone-Welborn This article examines papers presented at the “Beyond ‘Free’ and ‘Unfree’ Labor” Conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in April 2016. It extracts salient themes and questions about the status of labor history in the growing field of the history...

... International Labour Conference, to win a new labor standard. 79. “5074 Contacts Made to Intercede Services,” Domestics’ Cross-Cultural News , July 2000, 1, IISHA; Geraldine Pratt, Families Apart . 78. “Focus on Abuse, Violence in the Live-In Caregiver Program,” Domestics’ Cross-Cultural News...

... conferences and conventions as a four-way grid, with some allowance for variation within its categories of successful and desirable and without getting Manichaean about it. Thus, there are successful conferences in fi ne settings, unsuccessful conferences in undesirable settings, as well...

...Joshua Brown © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 A Prefatory Note from the Editorial Committee Bruce Laurie I fi nd it useful to imagine conferences and conventions as a four-way grid, with some allowance for variation within its categories of successful...

...Simon Middleton; Billy G. Smith © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 A Prefatory Note from the Editorial Committee Bruce Laurie I fi nd it useful to imagine conferences and conventions as a four-way grid, with some allowance for variation within its categories...

...-eight European Socialists, camouflaged as ornithologists, came together in the Swiss village of Zimmerwald for the first international conference of war opponents. They discussed their international organization's failure to stop the war, despite the fact that, at first glance, the organization, called...

... competition. The award’s purpose is to stimulate research in working-class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the fi eld. The award includes a check for $500, a certifi - cate, and inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor His- tory Conference (NALHC...

... and practitioners, and “state-of-the-movement” plenary sessions. Invited speakers have included academics Nelson Lichtenstein, Joseph A. McCartin, Theda Skocpol; journalists Isabel Wilker- son and Rick Perlstein; and union leaders Randi Weingarten and Rich Trumka. Our fifth annual conference was held June 15...

... Lawcha President’s Perspective: Looking Forward from New York Shelton Stromquist The New York conference in June marked an important threshold for LAWCHA. The programmatic diversity and stimulus to membership the conference created invites some rethinking of LAWCHA’s identity...

... Meetings Under a new plan adopted by the board of directors in October 2003, LAWCHA has begun broadening its range of venues for official conferences, business meetings, and sundry events and panels. While the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) at Wayne State University in Detroit...

..., no unified association brought together those teaching and researching in the field. We had the journal Labor History , to be sure, and there existed several crucial conferences, including the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) held annually in Detroit. That conference, and Wayne State...

...: Looking Ahead from Washington, DC Nancy MacLean The LAWCHA conference held in Washington, DC, in May 2015, “Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power,” carried forward the momentum from our large gatherings in Chicago and New York. Held in partnership with the Working-Class Studies...

... involvement of women’s auxiliaries in the coalfield wars of the 1920s and 1930s. 36. Betty Jean Hall, notes at the Woodruff Conference, November 23, 1977, CEP Archives, box 1, folder 2. 37. Witt, “Textile Workers Seek Jobs in Mines.” 38. “The Rank-and-File Speaks,” United Mine Workers...

...) conference in Milwaukee on April 20 – ​21. There may be an inherent tension between being a professional organization and being an activ- ist organization, but LAWCHA continues to try to fulfill both. In the wake of last year’s assaults on labor rights in Wisconsin and Ohio, LAWCHA’s website...

..., 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...

..., a wide assortment of unionists, scholars, and social activists con- verged on the University of California at Santa Barbara for a long-awaited confer- ence — sponsored jointly by the Southwest Labor Studies Association (SWLSA) and LAWCHA — titled “Labor in Protest: The Legacy of the 1960s...