44th Annual Conference - Wisconsin Labor History Society

The Wisconsin Labor History Society is pleased to announce our 44th annual conference, "The NLRA and the Working Class: Organizing In and Out of the Law."

Ahmed White will keynote our event by delivering the Stephen Meyer Memorial Lecture. Ahmed White is the James E. Jones, Jr. Chair in Law at the University of Wisconsin, where he teaches labor and employment law. A graduate of Southern University and Yale Law School, Professor White joined the faculty at UW last year after twenty-four years at the University of Colorado and has also taught at Northwestern and Villanova. The main focus of his research and writing is on the history of labor conflict in the early twentieth century with a particular emphasis on labor repression and industrial unionism, which are the main concerns of his two books: The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (2016) and Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (2022).

The conference will also feature two panels of local experts from a variety of backgrounds, including legal professionals and shop-floor organizers, discussing the past and present of the NLRA and what organizing outside the law might look like, and already looks like in Wisconsin.

The conference will conclude with a discussion led by School for Workers Assistant Professor Ericka Wills.

After the conference adjourns at 3:00 PM we will hold our annual meeting for the Society to elect officers, review reports, and do other business.

CONFERENCE FEE: $40.00 per person

STUDENTS, UNEMPLOYED PERSONS: $13.00 per person

This conference is not available online.

Contact info@wisconsinlaborhistory.org with any questions.

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