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
Gone with the Wind: Tracing Agricultural Migrant Labor
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
Migration, Madness, and Labor in Postemancipation New Orleans
These scientific servants of elite interests created a vision of the migrant body that perfectly matched the ideal working body of slavery that must be kept at labor to avoid illness.
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.
A Voice Not Heard at Home
To the present and past Mexican farmworker families of Tulare County: I write for you and walk alongside you. Mis vecinos, you are right. You belong here, just as your history of endurance and resilience belongs in our archives.
Call for Contributors: “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our April 2019 issue, “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
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.
Disrupting Technological Capitalism
As progressives who believe in the power of unions and the necessity of unity against an exploitative capitalist class who treats workers as commodities, this situation forces us to ask an important question: what will the future of work look like?
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.
