Call for Contributors: Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our August 2019 issue, “Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education”
Tag: labor unions
The Everglades Labor Camp and the Farmworkers’ Movement in Florida
In our current moment, as the Trump administration daily wields federal power to attack immigrant communities and workers’ rights, these kinds of community-driven struggles and organizations serve as a bulwark protecting families and empowering workers to make change where they live and work.
Graduate Workers, Political Activism, and the Uncertain Futures of Cautious Universities
The advances that helped make universities minimally accessible through needs-blind admissions, federal Pell grants, and Title IX protections were all forged by the political struggles of the generation that came before us. How are we going to expand upon them?
Appalachians in the Academy
The American public university is being destroyed, much as central Appalachia in many places was destroyed. It’s being stripped down and sold for parts. And the people in power do not care.
Judging the Spirit: Vatican Economic Teaching and the Basis of Doctrinal Development
While the questions set before religious judges are often rather inward-facing, the nature of such questions, which can determine the fate of someone’s immortal soul, can have major impacts on the political and economic life of believers outside the walls of the Church.
The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike and the Power of Grassroots Change
When this goes down in history, we don’t want the story to be that teachers went on a nine-day strike. We want the story to be that this was the beginning of a snowball effect of wonderful things happening for West Virginia. I think that in order for that to happen, we have to “Remember in November.”
Who Remembers Francis Galatis?: Police Brutality, Post-War New York, and a Movement Unrealized
Officer John Brullman’s conviction for violating Francis Galatis’s civil rights was the high water mark of years of activism against police brutality. But it wasn’t really a victory, it was a right hand turn.
Can Labor History Transform Our World?: A Roundtable with the Editors
We are too used to worshiping rich people in our country.
Labor Radicalism and Repression in the Woods of Maine
Few today would be surprised that the harshest repression following the confrontation in Greenville was not against the right-wing paramilitary organization but against members of the IWW.
Call for Contributors for November 2017 Issue on “Organized Labor”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “organized labor” to be featured in the November issue.
