New York Labor History Association

NYLHA is proud to announce our winners of the Bernard Bellush and Barbara Wertheimer Prizes for 2015!

The Wertheimer Prize goes to Jared Odessky of Columbia University (faculty advisor Mae Ngai) for his senior honors thesis, “Saving Our Children: Queer Teacher Organizing, the Religious Right, and Battles Over Child Protection in South Florida’s Schools, 1977-1997.”

There were two winners of the Bellush Prize this year, Jonathan D. Cohen for “This is Your Hometown: Collective Memories, Industrial Flight, and the Fate of Freehold, New Jersey” and Doug Genens for “Fighting Poverty in the Fields: Legal Services and the War on Poverty in Rural California.”

An abstract for the winning Wertheimer essay is available here, and abstracts for the winning Bellush essays are available here.

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Summer-Fall 2015 edition of NYLHA’s newsletter, Work History News, is now available!  Check it out here.  As always, members will receive a free print copy in the mail–to join or renew, go here!

The oldest public collection of radical posters is now available online!  The Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library, collected over the past 100 years, includes over two thousand posters on civil liberties, feminism, labor, and other political movements.  More information on the archive and its contents is available here.

“A Garland for May Day 1895″ (1895), Walter Crane, original relief print