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: Organized Labor
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.”
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.
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.”
Can Labor History Transform Our World?: A Roundtable with the Editors
We are too used to worshiping rich people in our country.
Who Counts as a Worker and Who Deserves Help?
As we occupy a world of increasing plenty, we must concede that the way we distribute resources is a choice. We choose to let our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico starve. That is our collective failure, not theirs.
Lessons from La Causa: Leadership, Spirituality and Geographies of Injustice in an Era of Civil Rights
While the impact of the United Farm Workers is perhaps not as strongly felt in the twenty-first century as it might be, its pedagogical relevance makes it perhaps more significant now than ever.
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.
