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2017-2018 2016 Bibliography Committee Don’t forget to renew your membership! LAWCHA.org/Renew LAWCHAThe Labor and Working-Class History Association UNKOCH MY CAMPUS 2017 PRIZE & AWARD WINNERS BRINGING LABOR HISTORY TO LIFE NEWSLETTER CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS INDEPENDENT HISTORIANS 2017-2018 2016 BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 1 11/8/2017 11:22:43 AM LAWCHA Officers President Treasurer James Gregory, University of Washington Liesl Miller Orenic, Dominican University Vice President Executive Assistant Julie Greene, University of Maryland Sarah Amundson, Duke University National Secretary Immediate Past President Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University Nancy MacLean, Duke University Board Members Term Ending March, 2018 Term Ending March, 2019 Term Ending March, 2020 Michael Innis-Jiménez Colin J. Davis Tula Connell University of Alabama University of Alabama at Birmingham Solidarity Center LaShawn Harris Keona K. Ervin Matt Garcia Michigan State University University of Missouri Dartmouth University Jennifer Scherer Sonia Hernandez Rashauna Johnson University of Iowa Texas A&M Dartmouth University Nikki Mandell Emily E. LB. Twarog Jacob Remes University of Wisconsin-Whitewater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New York University Frank Tobias (Toby) Higbie Lane Windham Marc S. Rodriguez University of California-Los Angeles Penn State Portland State University Table of Contents President’s Perspective p. 2 UnKoch My Campus p. 5 Notes from the Field: Bringing Labor History to Life p. 6 Independent Historians Focus of New LAWCHA Committee p. 9 Prize, Award, and Grant Winners p. 11 Labor History Bibliography, 2016 p. 15 Newsletter Covering 2017-2018 Published October, 2017 Printed by Barefoot Press (Raleigh, NC) Newsletter Design/Layout Ryan M. Poe 1 LAWCHA.org - @LAWCHA_ORG - Facebook.org/LaborAndWorkingClassHistory LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 1 11/8/2017 11:22:43 AM President’s Perspective James Gregory, University of Washington year has passed since the trauma of November 8, A 2016 and with each passing day the dismantling of American democracy continues, indeed escalates. organizationna Johnson, Jacob than theRemes, and willingness Marc of so S. many Rodriguez. distin- Within months we may see the mass deportation of Nothing does more to confirm the importance of our- thousands of young people, the destruction of a health teer their time. There is no other organization quite care system that protects millions, and the loss of long likeguished LAWCHA. labor historiansWe are a professional to run for office society and but volun also established union and workplace rights, to mention an activist organization. We do more than hold an an- only a few of the threats. nual conference. We ask members to represent us at One thing is clear—resistance matters. The far AHA, OAH, and other events and conferences. We ask right agenda has been slowed because of the mil- them to contribute to our LaborOnline blog and write lions who have taken to the streets, because of brave op-eds. We ask them to serve on eight LAWCHA com- journalists who are determined to expose the truth, mittees, and ask them to be politically active on their own campuses and in their communities. said no, and all of that is because Labor and social movementsbecause some devoted judges andto immigrant state and cityrights, officials women’s have NEW DUES SCALE rights, and Black Lives Matter have stood strong, You may have noticed one of the recent changes voted by the Board of Directors. Following the advice of the Our cover article highlights another struggle, the Contingent Faculty Committee, LAWCHA now has a fighting back even as the risks escalate. - vious campaign by the Koch brothers and their agents tofight buy to their preserve way higherinto universities, education infunding the face programs of a de three• tier dues schedule: - and positions devoted to advancing their ideological • Student, Adjunct, Independent Scholar, or Unem My Campus campaign is exposing and challenging • ployed: $25/year thisagendas, academic paying crime. to influence curricula. The Unkoch whoIndividual: can afford $50/year to help support LAWCHA) Contributing Member: $85/year (for members MEMBERS AND FINANCES COMMITTEE ON INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS LAWCHA next year will celebrate its 20th anniversa- The Board also created an ad hoc committee to repre- ry, and the organization has never been stronger or sent independent labor historians and report on ways more active. Membership for 2017 reached 588 and that LAWCHA might support them. Tula Connell and our bank account is healthy. We used some of our re- Sonia Hernandez chair the committee. Please see the sources ($7,300) to provide travel grants to gradu- accompanying article. ate students attending both the June LAWCHA con- Let me end with a word of appreciation for Labo- ference and the October NAHLC conference. Sharing rOnline which has proved to be increasingly effective costs with Labor: Studies in Working Class History, we in the last two years. I count close to 100 short articles also awarded six travel grants to adjunct status fac- that have been published under the editorial leader- ulty members attending the Seattle conference. - The Scales of Struggle conference was one of the orful designs make this more than a run-of-the-mill largest we have ever had. More than 500 scholars, blogship ofand Rosemary articles are Feurer reaching and Ryanimportant Poe. Ryan’saudiences, col students, labor educators, and labor activists attend- sometimes through republishing arrangements with ed, participating in more than 100 panels, workshops, Portside, Jacobin, The Conversation, New Republic, etc. - sions, most staying all four days. Have you contributed? films,The and Board performances, of Directors along met with in Seattle, five plenary joined ses by Readership tallies above 50,000 have been reported. - five new members: Tula Connell, Matt Garcia, Rashau Newsletter - Fall, 2017 2 LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 2 11/8/2017 11:22:43 AM COVER STORY UnKoch My Campus Ralph Wilson Co-Founder and Research Director, UnKoch My Campus n 2016, members of UnKoch My Campus docu- Koch’s “integrated strategy” helps donors “leverage Imented a conference of the Association of Private science and universities” for “policy change” with Enterprise Education (APEE), the Charles Koch - Foundation’s network of free-market academics. ly-coordinated networks of academics, think-tanks, At the meeting, Koch-funded professors bragged andindustrial political efficiency operatives and allow scale. “intellectual Investments raw in high ma- about how Koch and other donors have been able to “take-over” departments, “very rapidly and ram- promoted, lobbied for, and legislated by allied elect- terial” to be refined into “usable form” which is then to “take” available tenure lines. In 2014, a national network of students and ming through” curricular changes, and finding ways alumnied officials. from affected campuses launched UnKoch 225 tenure lines “spread out” at 53 of their multi- My Campus to reveal and disrupt this strategy. Un- million-dollar Koch officials academic estimated centers, the captureroughly ofa tenthat least of Koch helps to expose Koch’s “leverage,” a broad the more than 500 campuses Koch has funded.i Like the $100 billion wealth of Koch Industries, freedom, governance, and integrity. Koch’s academic funding has grown exponentially, patternWith of the donor help influence of students overstepping and faculty, academic UnKoch totaling at least $144,714,489 between 2005 and has further documented how donors use highly - unusual contracts to create programs (including idly growing network of donors convened through - Koch’s2015. Since secretive 2003, biannual this has seminars. been amplified by a rap Detailed in leaked documents and recordings, professorships,courses, certificates, adjunct minors, lecturers, majors, graduate extra-curric fellows, ular programs, etc),etc.), positions and train (tenure/non-tenure future operatives. Large pledges are broken into an- The UnKoch campaign website includes an nual “grants,” wherein the donor interactive database of 308 colleges and universities that have received Koch broth- can approve or reject the renewal ers funds: unkochmycampus.org - tion. Typically, Koch retains the rightof funding to withdraw for any program/posifunding based on monitored compliance with its “objectives and purposes” at any notice. time, with as little as fifteen days 3 LAWCHA.org - @LAWCHA_ORG - Facebook.org/LaborAndWorkingClassHistory LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 3 11/8/2017 11:22:44 AM UnKoch My Campus We have seen Koch granted explicit approval power over graduate fellow dissertation topics. Armed with a clear picture of the intent, struc- ture, and function of Koch’s network, campus resis- Follow us on Twitter tance has grown rapidly. UnKoch has worked with whistleblowers, students, faculty, and community @LAWCHA_ORG members on dozens of campuses. refused to disclose their agreement for a new multi- million When dollar administrators center, UnKoch at Wake Forest University with context and examples of typical Koch con- pension system” in Alabama. In response, tens of helped provide WFU thousandsforts at Troy of publicUniversity workers to “bringled by thedown Professional the state to the Charles Koch Foundation’s unprecedented - efforttracts. andThe facultydocumented senate’s strategy 2017 motion to co-opt read: higher “Due tors with calls and emails after the APEE recordings wereFire Fighters released, of leadingAlabama to flooded a harsh Troy censure
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