Labor and Working Class History Association
Established: 1999. Membership: 532. Annual dues: $50; $30 students (includes subscription to Labor)
Web site: http://www.lawcha.org/
Statement of Purpose: The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is open to everyone interested in studying the history of working-class men and women, their lives, workplaces, communities, organizations, cultures, political activities, and societal contexts. It aims to promote an international, theoretically informed, comparative, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and diverse labor and working-class history.
The association seeks to develop mutually supportive relationships with existing regional, state, and local labor studies and labor history societies as well as with federations of labor, their affiliated trade unions, independent labor unions and organizations, and labor history associations in other countries.
The association will encourage research, writing, and teaching about labor and working- class history and be open to the widest possible variety of approaches to the subject and a free exchange of ideas and opinions. The organization will seek to recruit a demographically and regionally diverse membership and leadership. It is committed to making the study of working- class history an integral part of the history and social studies curricula in the public schools and also to collaborating with trade union research and education directors in making labor history more accessible to union members. It also will be an advocate for including the history of working-class men and women in public history projects and historical initiatives by federal, state, and local governments and governmental bodies.
The association seeks to produce more visibility and outlets for labor history scholarship, to work toward creating a much stronger communications network and support base in public debates that affect us as academic workers or as members of the broader labor community, and to provide stronger support for the career development of junior members of the labor history sub- discipline. The association will reward and recognize excellent scholarly and public contributions in the area of labor history and labor studies. Finally, in all of its initiatives, the association seeks to increase the numbers and visibility of those obviously underrepresented populations in the life of the association and of the field.
Officers and Staff
Office:
c/o Sanford Institute
Duke University
Box 90239
Durham, NC 27708-0239
E-mail:
lawcha@duke.edu
President:
Michael Honey
University of Washington-Tacoma
E-mail: mhoney@u.washington.edu
Vice-President:
Kimberley Phillips
College of William and Mary
E-mail: klphil@wm.edu
National Secretary:
Cecelia Bucki
Fairfield University
Phone: 203-254-4000 x2307
E-mail: cbucki@fairfield.edu
Primary Contact
Treasurer:
Thomas Klug
Marygrove College
E-mail:
tklug@marygrove.edu
Immediate Past President:
Alice Kessler-Harris
Columbia University
E-mail: ak571@columbia.edu
Annual Meeting Date: Every spring, either at independent LAWCHA conference, or at annual meeting of Organization of American Historians.(OAH). 2010 meeting will be at OAH, Washington, DC April 9, 2010.
Publication: Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. Quarterly journal published by Duke University Press. subscriptions@dukeupress.edu, Editor Leon Fink, University of Illinois-Chicago labor@uic.edu
E-Version:
Text revisions by:
Elisabeth Grant 09/21/09
