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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

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 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

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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 the Remes, 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. -

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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

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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 public University workers to “bringled by the down 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 administra of the - Koch center. For now, the effort to destroy the state versityeducation prohibit for its all ideological, Koch network political funding.” and financial pension system has been blocked. ends,Exposing the Committee Koch’s “integrated” moves that networkWake Forest often Uni in- UnKoch also works with chapters of the Ameri-

political activities. Koch-funded professors at APEE faculty organizations to identify institutional vul- 2016volves bragged tracing about affiliations the “policy between work” academics coming andout nerabilitiescan Association at various of University universities. Professors Even and on othercam- of their centers, working with ALEC, and about ef- puses claiming to uphold AAUP principles, there is

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often little transparency about the terms and condi- tions of private donations. Faculty governance bod- A MESSAGE FROM PAST PRESIDENT ies need to exercise oversight in determining when NANCY MACLEAN I invited Ralph Wilson’s report to alert LAWCHA members and allies to Un- grants/giftsWith the violateassistance academic of UnKoch freedom/governance My Campus, such Koch My Campus, which is the only orefforts constitute are underway, a conflict or of have interest. taken place at Florida national organization focused entire- ly on exposing and combatting the Koch threat. Soon after Democracy State University, George Mason University, Western in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Jay College of Criminal Justice. Plan for America was published in June of 2018, both CarolinaPlease University, join our mailing Syracuse list and University, reach out and direct John- the book and my reputation as a scholar were attacked ly to get started on your campus. Check our website by academics and operatives of the libertarian right. to see whether Koch has invested in your campus. The UnKoch researchers Ralph Wilson and Connor Contact colleagues if their campuses are Koched. Gibson, whom I had never met at that point, rushed to my aid. In short order, they sent documentation re- We also appreciate donations from supporters, and vealing that nearly every one of the attackers was the rely on them to fund staff who carries out research recipient of Koch largesse they had failed to disclose. and organizing efforts. Please consider giving and Without this information and support, I would have getting involved. been in a much weaker position. We need such rapid response capability to address the escalating threats to higher education coming from the Koch-backed right. The young activists of UnKoch My Campus are working hard to expose undue donor influence and protect academic integrity and faculty governance. I would like to personally urge LAWCHA members and supporters to help these brave young researchers and organizers however we can, whether ___ by becoming active on our own campuses, alerting col- leagues at affected universities, spreading the word i. Detail and documentation for this article can be through social media, or contributing financially. found at www.unkochmycampus.org. See the fol- UnKoch is a registered 501c3 nonprofit, so contri- butions are tax-deductible. Case Study in Academic Crime.” lowing reports: About APEE,”“Primary Sources,”“A UNKOCHMYCAMPUS.ORG

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 5 11/8/2017 11:22:45 AM Notes from the Field: Bringing Labor History to Life

Emily L.B. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

have a quirky academic job. Back in 2010, I was joint commitment of the State of Illinois and the la- I on fellowship with one young son and another on the way, when I applied for a tenure track job in the as a labor education program. We have hosted the - bor movement, LER was founded first and foremost the past 70 years. In 1947, steelworkers from In- University of Illinois’ School of Labor and Employ dianaUnited and Steel Illinois Workers began (USW) moving Summer onto campusInstitute dur for- ment Relations (LER). I had a M.S. in Labor Studies ing the steamy quiet days of summer to study for Illinoisfrom the at UniversityChicago’s History of Massachusetts program. The at Amherstjob was a week at a time. I spend four weeks each summer and was writing a dissertation in the University of teaching in this program and much of it is spent was asked, “Do you feel comfortable teaching in teaching labor history. non-traditionalpretty much a perfectsettings fit. such During as union the interview,halls, VFW I halls, and other places?” My response, “Of course!” In fact, the thought of getting to teach beyond the and This headed past west summer, to two my major colleague labor history Dan Gilbert sites Ivory Tower was what drew me to the job in the ofand struggle I loaded – up Virden our USW and students Mt. Olive, onto Illinois. a coach These bus

of two, I would often be the only woman in a class- scholar-educator. First, the opportunity to spend roomfirst place. of large But burly I also building knew tradesmen that as a 5’3” and Imother would hoursfieldtrips with have workers two significant who often impacts know onvery me littleas a need to hold my own. I think the real question was – “As a woman, can you pull off keeping a large group States but are living the reality on a daily basis of rowdy men in order while on their turf?” After blowsabout themy historymind. The of working recognition people that in their the Unitedstrug- seven years on the job, I am proud to say I am pretty gles at work and in the community are connected darn good at it. to the struggles of mineworkers in Central Illinois My favorite time of the year is the summer. And, or farmworkers in California or domestic workers not because I am off for a couple of months, but ex- in the Deep South sustains me and motivates me actly the opposite. Es- tablished on the heels teaching both traditional undergraduates and adult of World War II by a to continually find new pedagogical approaches to

Members of District 7 on a field trip organized as part of the USW and Univer- sity of Illinois Summer Institute. Virden, Illinois. July 2017.

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Images from Illinois sculptor David Seagraves bronze mural me- morializing the 1898 Battle of Virden and the Illinois . Photo credit: Emily E. LB. Twarog

learners. But there is nothing better than taking measures improved, the coal barons continued to students to ground zero… pressure miners to work harder for less. In October We drove 90 minutes from Champaign to Vird- 1898 workers in Virden went on strike demand- en, Illinois last July on a rainy humid day. When we ing better jobs from the coal barons. In an effort pulled into the town square we were met by histo- to break the strike, the coal barons hired the Thiel Detective Service to guard a train full of African American miners from the South to work the Illi- agreedrian Rosemary to tell us Feurer the story and of a thelocal Virden bookstore Massacre. owner nois mines. The black workers were not told of the whoThe is theBattle unofficial of Virden, historian or the of Virden Virden Massacre, and had strike. Instead, the employers told them that work- took place in 1898. Over the previous seven years, ers had left the mines to join the ranks of the mili- - - eling from coal town to coal town organizing work- ber 12th, a train full of replacement workers rolled the United Mineworkers of America had been trav intotary theto fight Virden in the station. Spanish-American war. On Octo general strike of all coalminers. By the end of 1897, thereers. A were year over before 30,000 Virden, union the UWMminers called in Illinois for a When the escorted strikebreakers arrived at an armed committed to a militant and aggressive campaign stockade set up near the train station in Virden around midday on October 12, 1898, a shootout erupted. It last- for justice. While wages increased and some safety

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ed ten minutes. The company gunmen overpowered the reminder that workers only improve their employ-

strikers with their modern Winchester rifles; the striking ment conditions when they stand up and fight. armedminers guards. returned Forty fire strikers with shotguns were wounded. and hunting None of rifles. the Twelve men were killed; seven were miners, five were cemetery Our field in the trip nation. ended It withwas established a short ride in to 1899 the arrived several hours later. The governor’s inaction was becauseUnion Miners the commemorations Cemetery, the of only the Virden union massa owned- ultimatelyblack strike-breakers denounced were across wounded. the country. Thei National Guard cre martyrs became too controversial in Virden. A memorial to the fallen workers was built and their The Virden Massacre is seen as one of the key turn- bodies were re-interred in the Mt. Olive cemetery. ing points in labor history not just for coal miners, Later, decided to be buried in Mt. Ol- but for all workers. The strikers were able to hold ive, “I hope it will be my consolation when I pass off the efforts of the coal barons to break the strike away to feel I sleep under the clay with those brave and the public saw the actions of the barons and the boys.”ii state as a violation of democratic process. - An enormous bronze mural stands in the cen- ments. The realization that blood was spilled on the ter of the Virden town square. It tells the history of very For spot many on USWwhich students, they stand these so are that powerful they have mo a not just Virden, but the Illinois coal mine wars that chance at a safe, middle-class job is transformative. would last more than a generation. With images of The opportunity to leave a memento on the grave of Mother Jones and to see the mementos of visitors woman, and children of the mining communities, from around the world connects them to a larger Mother Jones, “General” Alexander Bradley, men, struggle for worker justice. I wouldn’t trade my quirky job for summers off and the National Guard, the memorial is a powerful ever…

* * * LABORONLINE Emily E. LB. Twarog is a tenure track professor at November, 2017. LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, con- temporary and historical, as well as “instant” dialogue and debate among Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, readers and authors about the contents of LAWCHA’s print journal, Labor. andthe UniversityConsumer Protestof Illinois in Twentiethat Urbana-Champaign. Century America Her first book, Building Job Security into Community College Faculty Work: Experiences in British Columbia is now available from Oxford University Press. by Frank Cosco Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017) by Daniel Graff Contingency and The Runaway Academic Apprentice: How Craft Union History Can Inform Attempts to Reverse the Decline of Faculty Tenure ___ by Dan Jacoby One Big Orange Union: Faculty-Staff Organizing in a Right to Work State by Bob Hutton i. Jeff Biggers, ͞Oct. 12, 1898: Battle of Virden,͟ https://zinnedproject. Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists org/2013/10/battle-of-virden/ by Daniel Graff - Emily Twarog on her new book, Politics of the Pantry ii. Mother Jones, ͞A Special Request to the minder of Mt. Olive, Illinois, by Jacob Remes and Emily E. LB. Twarog 11/12/23, ͟http://www.motherjonesmuseum.org/wp-content/up loads/2014/11/Special-request-virden.jpg

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Tula Connell, LAWCHA Board of Directors

ndependent labor historian Keri Leigh Merritt I from scholarship. affiliationThe National whose primaryCoalition incomeof Independent does not deriveSchol- considers herself lucky—the first two years after enabledshe completed her to continue her doctorate accessing at the its holdings. University But of as those who demonstrate critical analysis in their Georgia, a computer glitch at the university library workars (NCIS) and pursue in part and defines share knowledge independent “in or scholars across

now,As I saysbegin Merritt: research for my second book, I am at a com- professional scholarly involvement and commit- plete loss. I am currently trying to make friends with my ment.”any fields Further, whose credentialsindependent and/or scholars activities are thoseshow undergraduate institution’s librarians! - search support for their scholarly activities.” Merritt, author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and “whoAlthough do not data receive quantifying ongoing financialindependent and/or schol re- , and co-editor of Slavery in the Antebellum South ars are not available, the numbers of scholars who a collection on southern labor history, is among choose career paths outside academia, along with countless independent scholars throughout the - economy, are rapidly growing. Statistics on con- verely hampering their ability to engage in a histo- those who are part of the “gigification” of the U.S. country whose lack of academic affiliation is se percent of college faculty members were tenure or As part of a new Ad-hoc Committee on Indepen- tenuretingent track.faculty Today, show thethe numberstrend: In have1969, essentially nearly 80 dentrian’s Scholars most fundamental approved work:by the scholarly LAWCHA research. Board in June, Merritt and a dozen other LAWCHA members and half of those working only part-time, often with are examining how LAWCHA can address issues severalflipped, differentwith two-thirds teaching of jobs. faculty now non-tenure will make recommendations on steps the associa- specific to independent scholars. The committee AWARENESS-RAISING NEEDED ABOUT tion can take to better enable independent histori- INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR ISSUES ans to practice their craft as well as fully participate The initial call for LAWCHA members to volunteer in LAWCHA. on the Ad-Hoc Committee on Independent Schol- broadly encompassing, and includes adjunct facul- their challenges as independent scholars and ap- ty, publicThe definitionhistorians, and of “independentthose without institutional scholar” is preciativears drew a that significant LAWCHA response, has recognized with many this sharing grow- ing cohort and acknowledged the need to address their unique concerns. - ticipants agreed that obstacles they face include little At or the no committee’s access to libraries first meeting and online in August, databases, par

academic conferences because of a lack of travel nor access to IRB review; limited ability to attend-

choosingfunding; andnot toa sensereview that their journals books oftenor accept discrimi their articles.nate against those without academic affiliation,

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and began pursuing labor history after, or along with careers as union members and activists. Committee member and independent historian Jeffrey B. Perry, a 33-year postal mail handler, union steward and activist, holds a Ph.D. in American His-

and Columbia universities. Perry is working on the secondtory from volume Columbia of his and biography M.A. degrees on African from Rutgers Ameri- can Socialist Party activist Hubert Harrison for Co-

the papers of Theodore W. Allen, author of The In- lumbia University Press, along with inventorying Perry cites the record gap between rich and poor,vention white of the supremacy, White Race. and the domination of rul- ing class interests as he encourages “people to pay more serious attention to, and be more support- ive of, the work of independent scholars,” some of for most independent sholars. While those not af- whom are making contributions that “pose impor- tant challenges to the dominant ideas and practices an annual “JPASS” account for $200 (sometimes that serve ruling class interests.” lessfiliated through with academicassociational organizations discounts), can the purchase content As historian Becky Nicolaides says, “The prob- is limited. JPASS does not include the full range of lem of unequal research access is exacerbating - larger problems of inequity across the profession, cess journal articles published in the past three to by creating barriers and challenges for historians journal articles available in JSTOR, users cannot ac- working outside of well-resourced universities.” In cles per month. her role as American Historical Association (AHA) fiveParticipants years, and are concurred limited to that downloading much awareness- 10 arti raising must be done within LAWCHA membership spearheading a project to identify independent his- about the issues of independent scholars because toriansCouncilor and on assess its Research the resources Division, offered Nicolaides them by is even sympathetic labor scholars who are quick to academic institutions. support “gig” economy workers, fail to recognize Both the AHA and the Organization of American the gig economy academics in their own ranks. Historians are offering panels by and about inde- Where there is overlap with issues examined by pendent scholars at their 2018 conferences, and the LAWCHA Contingent Faculty Committee, the In- the AHA just concluded a survey among its mem- dependent Scholars Committee plans to piggyback bers to determine how many identify as indepen- dent scholars and ascertain their ability to access LAWCHA’s Contingent Faculty Committee.” Issues scholarly resources. LAWCHA’s organizational uniqueon the to August independent 2016 “Recommendations scholars will form Madeseparate by support for social justice and working class issues recommendations. makes it especially pertinent for the association to address inequities experienced by independent UNEQUAL RESEARCH ACCESS EXACERBATES labor historians. LAWCHA’s creation of the Ad-hoc INEQUITY ACROSS THE PROFESSION Committee on Independent Scholars is a strong The intersection of scholarship and union activ- ism among LAWCHA members is uniquely manifest increasing disparity between the dwindling ranks among members of the Independent Scholars Com- offirst full-time step in scholarstaking seriously and the increasingthe need to numbers rectify the of mittee, several of whom have working class origins those without full academic association.

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 10 11/8/2017 11:22:46 AM CONGRATULATIONS 2017 Prize Winners

Taft Prize

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris University of Illinois Press, 2016

David Montgomery Award

Deregulating Desire Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice by Ryan Patrick Murphy Temple University Press, 2016

Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation For more information on LAWHCA’s prizes and awards, visit James C. Benton Fraying Fabric Textile Labor, Trade Politics, and Deindustrialization, 1933-1974 LAWCHA.org/ grants-prizes Georgetown University, dissertation directed by Professor Joseph McCartin

Distinguished Service to Labor Left to Right: Julie Greene, Eileen Boris, Nancy and Working-Class History MacLean, and Nelson Lichtenstein. Eileen Boris A former Board member of LAWCHA and for many years chair of the Program Com- mittee, Eileen Boris holds the Hull En- dowed Chair in the Department of Femi- nist Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nelson Lichtenstein A founding member of the LAWCHA Board of Directors, Nelson Lichtenstein is a Dis- tinguished Professor in the Department of History at UCSB, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 11 11/8/2017 11:22:46 AM Conference Travel Grants

Grant recipients at the Scales of Struggle con- ference. Photo: Herman Gilman.

In 2017, LAWCHA awarded $7200 in conference Lorenzo Constaguta travel grants to grad students and contingent fac- ulty. UniversityMorgan of ShahanNottingham

Supporting graduate students has been a key com- JohnsNaomi Hopkins Calnitsky University mitment of LAWCHA since its beginning. This year we awarded seventeen competitive travel awards SarahCarleton Stanford-McIntyre University to graduate students to help them present work at College of William and Mary

of Directors decided to competitively award a small numberLAWCHA of affiliated travel grantsconferences. to faculty In 2016, with the insecure Board Tiffany Gonzalez Texas A&M University positions. The Editorial Board of Labor: Studies in offered to share the costs. Veronique Emond Sioufi Working Class History Simon Frasier University NALHC 2017 Andreas Meyris SCALES OF STRUGGLE CONFERENCE Adam Mertz GeorgePaco Washington Martin del CampoUniversity

UniversityAmanda of Illinois Walter at Chicago UniversityHenry of California, Himes Berkeley

WayneAmy State Zanoni University West Virginia University CONTINGENT FACULTY GRANTS RutgersAndrew University Elrod Holger Droessler Bard College

University ofBen California, Schmack Santa Barbara

Josiah Rector University of Kansas WayneJulia State Smith University

Camille Robert Universite duJoel Quebec Zapata a Montreal Rutgers University Ithaca College Sarah Grunberg, SouthernJonathan Methodist Cortez University

Steven Parfitt BrownJose Villagran University UniversityThomas of Alter Derby

University of Texas at Austin Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne Newsletter - Fall, 2017 12

LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 12 11/8/2017 11:22:47 AM More than 500 scholars, students, and labor activists participated in the Scales of Struggle conference hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Stud- ies at the University of Washington.

Julie Greene (left) chaired the open- ing plenary on “Mass Incarceration and the Working Class” with Chel- sea Nelson, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Heather Ann Thompson.

Shel Stromquist and Nikki Mandell co-chaired the program committee that assembled more than 100 pan- els, plenaries, and performances. “Borders and Coalitions” was a key sub-theme of the conference, represented by more than 20 panels. Program committee member Sonia Hernandez (right) coordinated this section.

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 13 11/8/2017 11:22:48 AM LaShawn Harris accepts Taft book award Vice President Julie Greene surprises President from committee chair IIeen DeVault Jim Gregory with special acknowledgement

The conference featured a sneak preview and a panel discussion of film clips from Oscar nominee Julia Reichert’s documentary project on the 9to5 movement. It drew an audience of nearly 100 including current SEIU Local 925 members who work at the Uni- versity of Washington. Panelists left to right: Shawn Harris, a leader and activist with SEIU 925; Lane Windham, LAWCHA board member (speaking); Karen Hart, president of SEIU Local 925; Julia Reichert, film maker; Kim Cook, founding president Local 925.

Recent victories by unions and social movements in Seattle (including $15 minimum wage, paid sickness benefits, and a secure scheduling law) were discussed in a key plenary. Left to right are Jeff Johnson, President, Washington State Labor Council, State Senator Rebecca Saldana, Nicole Grant, Executive Director, King County Labor Coun- cil, and Nancy MacLean, LAWCHA past president.

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LAWCHA NEWSLETTER 2017.indd 14 11/8/2017 11:22:49 AM Labor History Bibliography, 2016 Compiled by Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

Albrecht, Sandra L. The Assault on Labor: The 1986 TWA Cohen, Phil, and Si Kahn. The Jackson Project: War in the Strike and the Decline of Workers’ Rights in America. American Workplace. UniversityTennessee Press. Lexington Books. 2016. 2016. Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake. Solidarity Forever?: Race, Cohen, Ronald D. Depression Folk: Grassroots Music Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern Cali- and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America. University fornia. Lexington Books. 2016. of North Carolina Press. 2016. Ashby, Steven K., and Robert Bruno. A Fight for the Soul Connell, Tula A. Conservative Counterrevolution: Chal- of Public Education: The Story of the Chicago Teach- lenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee. University of ers Strike. ILR Press. 2016. Illinois Press. 2016. Bauer Jr., William J. California through Native Eyes: Re- Cornell, Andrew. Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the claiming History. University of Washington Press. Twentieth Century. Oakland, California: University 2016. of California Press. 2016. Bean, Christopher B. Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Cowie, Jefferson.The Great Exception: The New Deal and Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Tex- the Limits of American Politics. Princeton University as. Fordham University Press. 2016. Press. 2016. Boustan, Leah Platt. Competition in the Promised Land: Curtin, Michæl, and Kevin Sanson, eds. Precarious Cre- Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets. ativity: Global Media, Local Labor. University of Cali- Princeton University Press. 2016. fornia Press. 2016. Bowman, Timothy P. Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Deslippe, Dennis A., Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands. Texas McKerley, eds. Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and A&M University Press. 2016. Working-Class Studies. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Breton, Rob. The Oppositional Aesthetics of Chartist Fic- tion: Reading against the Middle-Class Novel. Rout- Doppen, Frans H. Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in ledge. 2016. Ohio Coal: A Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900. McFarland. 2016. Bronstein, Jamie L. Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America. Praeger. 2016. Draut, Tamara. Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America. Doubleday. 2016. Brundage, David. Irish Nationalists in America: The Poli- tics of Exile, 1798-1998. Oxford University Press. Fabricant, Michael and Stephen Brier. Austerity Blues: 2016. Fighting for the Soul of Higher Education. Johns Hop- kins University Press. 2016. Buenker, John D. Milwaukee in the 1930s: A Federal Writ- ers Project City Guide. Wisconsin Historical Society Fischer, Nick. Spider Web: The Birth of American Anti- Press. 2016. communism. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Byrkit, James W. Forging the Copper Collar: Arizona’s Fisk, Catherine L. Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, Labor-Management War of 1901–1921. University and Madison Avenue Harvard University Press. of Arizona Press. 2016. 2016. Campbell, Marne L. Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Flores, Lori A. Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Ameri- Gender, and Community, 1850-1917. Chapel Hill: cans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farm- University of North Carolina Press. 2016. worker Movement. Yale University Press. 2016. Cantwell, Christopher D., Heath W. Carter, and Janine Follett, Richard, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Bar- Giordano Drake, eds. The Pew and the Picket Line: bara M. Hahn, eds. Plantation Kingdom: The Ameri- Christianity and the American Working Class. Univer- can South and Its Global Commodities. Johns Hop- sity of Illinois Press. 2016. kins University Press. 2016.

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Frank, Thomas. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened Hicks, Erich Martin. Mary Fields Aka Stagecoach Mary. to the Party of the People? New York: Metropolitan Design Publishing. 2016. Books. 2016. Hill, Erin. Never Done: A History of Women’s Work in Me- Gamboa, Erasmo. Bracero Railroaders: The Forgotten dia Production. Rutgers University Press. 2016. World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. Horn, Miriam. Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conserva- West. Seattle: University of Washington Press. tion Heroes of the American Heartland. W. W. Nor- 2016. ton & Company. 2016. Glass, Fred. From Mission to Microchip: A History of the Hurst, Allison L., and Sandi Kawecka Nenga. Working California Labor Movement. Oakland, California: in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our University of California Press. 2016. Academic Work. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Goff, Lisa.Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the 2016. Working Poor. Harvard University Press. 2016. Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold His- Goluboff, Risa. Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitu- tory of Class in America. New York, New York: Vi- tional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford king. 2016. University Press. 2016. Jacoby, Karl. The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire. New The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princ- York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2016. eton University Press. 2016. Jennings, Audra. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Gray, Brenda C. Black Female Domestics During the De- Politics in World War II America. University of Penn- pression in New York City. Routledge. sylvania Press. 2016. Gross, Kali Nicole. Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disem- Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor bodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Cam- America. Oxford University Press. 2016. bridge University Press. 2016. Hahn, Steven, and Eric Foner. A Nation Without Bor- Jong, Greta de. You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and ders: The and Its World in an Age of Civil Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement. Univer- Wars, 1830-1910. New York: Viking. 2016. sity of North Carolina Press. 2016. Haley, Sarah. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Defini- the Making of Jim Crow Modernity. Chapel Hill: Uni- tive History of Racist Ideas in America. Nation Books. versity of North Carolina Press. 2016. 2016. Harold, Claudrena, Bryant Simon, and Jane Dailey. Kluger, James R. The Clifton-Morenci Strike: Labor Dif- New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South. University ficulty in Arizona, 1915–1916. University of Arizona of Georgia Press. 2016. Press. 2016. Harris, LaShawn. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Kolin, Andrew. Political Economy of Labor Repression in Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Under- the United States. Lexington Books. 2016. ground Economy. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Krochmal, Max. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. Trotskyists on Trial: Free Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era. Univer- Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of sity of North Carolina Press. 2016. FDR. NYU Press. 2016. Lause, Mark A. Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, Heinz, Anne, and John Heinz, eds. Women, Work, and and Radicalism in the Civil War Era. University of Il- Worship in Lincoln’s Country: The Dumville Family linois Press. 2016. Letters. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Lawrie, Paul R. D. Forging a Laboring Race: The African Heyman, Josiah. Life and Labor on the Border: Working American Worker in the Progressive Imagination. People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886–1986. NYU Press. 2016. University of Arizona Press. 2016.

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Lebovic, Sam. Free Speech and Unfree News: The Para- Mize, Ronald L. The Invisible Workers of the U.S.–Mexi- dox of Press Freedom in America. Harvard Univer- co Bracero Program: Obreros Olvidados. Lexington sity Press, 2016. Books. 2016. Leonard, Thomas C. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugen- Morgan, Lynda J. Known for My Work: African American ics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Ethics from Slavery to Freedom. University Press of Princeton University Press, 2016. Florida. 2016. Linebaugh, Peter. The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Murphy, Ryan Patrick. Deregulating Desire: Flight Atten- Wonderful History of May Day. PM Press, 2016. dant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice. Temple University Press. 2016. Lohman, Sarah. Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of Ameri- can Cuisine. Simon & Schuster. 2016. Mustakeem, Sowande M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. University of Il- Loza, Mireya. Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers linois Press. 2016. Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom Cha- pel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2016. Navickas, Katrina. Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848. Manchester University Press. Macieski, Robert. Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photo- 2016. graphs Child Labor in New England. University of Massachusetts Press. 2016. Neary, Timothy B. Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954. Mackaman, Thomas. New Immigrants and the Radical- University Of Chicago Press. 2016. ization of American Labor, 1914-1924. McFarland. 2016. Nemerov, Alexander. Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine. Princeton University Press. 2016. Mansfield, Nick. Soldiers as Workers. Liverpool Univer- sity Press. 2016. O’Hara, S. Paul. Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of Marez, Curtis. Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Tech- the Nation’s Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective nologies of Resistance. UniversityOf Minnesota Agency. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2016. Press. 2016. Ostman, Ronald E., Harry Littell, and Linda A. Ries. Marion G. Crain, Winifred R. Poster, and Miriam A. Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: A Visual History of Cherry, eds. For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and Pennsylvania’s Railroad Lumbering Communities; the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America. The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke. Penn University of Massachusetts Press. 2016. State University Press. 2016. McAlevey, Jane F. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in Pehl, Matthew. The Making of Working-Class Religion. the New Gilded Age. New York: Oxford University University of Illinois Press. Press. 2016. Price, S. L. Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, McKerley, John W. Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and and an American Town. Atlantic Monthly Press. Working-Class Studies. Edited by Dennis A. Deslippe 2016. and Eric Fure-Slocum. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Prout, Jerry. Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age. Northern Illinois University Press. Meyer, Stephen. Manhood on the Line: Working-Class 2016. Masculinities in the American Heartland. University of Illinois Press. 2016. Rabig, Julia. The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990. University Of Milkman, Ruth. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality. Uni- Chicago Press. 2016. versity of Illinois Press. 2016. Reséndez, Andrés. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Miraftab, Faranak. Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Houghton Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking. Bloom- Mifflin Harcourt. 2016. ington: Indiana University Press. 2016. Reynolds, M. Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899., Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.

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Robinson, Prof Miriam Michelle. Dreams for Dead Bod- Thompson, Gabriel. America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross ies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American De- and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century. tective Fiction. University of Michigan Press. 2016. University of California Press. 2016. Rodda, Jeannette. Go Ye and Study the Beehive: The Mak- Tibbs, D. From Black Power to Prison Power: The Mak- ing of a Western Working Class. Routledge. 2016. ing of Jones V. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. Rogge, A. E., D. Lorne McWatters, Melissa Keane, and Richard P. Emanuel. Raising Arizona’s Dams: Daily Tompkins, Adam. Ghostworkers and Greens: The Coop- Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Con- erative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmen- struction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s. talists for Pesticide Reform, ILR Press. 2016. University of Arizona Press. 2016. Trestman, Marlene. Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Roggenkamp. Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advo- Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the New- cate Bessie Margolin. LSU Press. 2016. paper Women’s Business. Kent State University Turk, Katherine. Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights Press. 2016. in the Modern American Workplace. University of Rolf, David. The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Pennsylvania Press. 2016. . The New Press. 2016. Walsh, James D. Playing Against the House: The Dramat- Romney, Charles W. Rights Delayed: The American State ic World of an Undercover Union Organizer. Scrib- and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950. ner. 2016. Oxford University Press. 2016. Ward, Stephen M. In Love and Struggle: The Revolution- Sanders, Crystal R. A Chance for Change: Head Start and ary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs. University of Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle. University of North Carolina Press. 2016. North Carolina Press. 2016. Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colo- Scee, Trudy Irene. Dancing in Paradise, Burning in Hell: nization in Early America. Liveright Publishing Cor- Women in Maine’s Historic Working Class Dance In- porations-Norton. 2016. dustry. Camden, Maine: Down East Books. 2016. Weinrib, Laura. The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Scribner, Campbell F. The Fight for Local Control: Civil Liberties Compromise. Harvard University Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy. Cornell Press. 2016. University Press. 2016. Whalen, Kevin, and Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert. Na- Shapiro, Peter. Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: tive Students at Work: American Indian Labor and The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87. Haymarket Sherman Institute’s Outing Program, 1900-1945. Se- Books. 2016. attle: University of Washington Press. 2016. Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez. Of Forests and Fields: Mexi- White, Ahmed. The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, can Labor in the Pacific Northwest. Rutgers Univer- and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal Ameri- sity Press. 2016. ca. University of California Press. 2016. Sittig, Ann L., and Martha Florinda González. The Ma- Wilentz, Sean. The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The yans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking Hidden History of American Politics. W. W. Norton. on the Great Plains. Lincoln: Bison Books, 2016. 2016. Slater, Joseph E. Public Workers: Government Employee Wolfinger, James. Running the Rails: Capital and Labor Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962. ILR Press. in the Philadelphia Transit Industry. Cornell Univer- sity Press. 2016. Stuesse, Angela. Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South. University of California Wood, Gregory. Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Press, 2016. Smoking in the Workplace. ILR Press. Taft, Chloe E. From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City. Harvard University Press. 2016.

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