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NYLHA is proud to announce our winners of the Bernard Bellush and Barbara Wertheimer Prizes for 2014.  The Wertheimer Prize goes to Connor Kenaston of Yale University (faculty advisor John Faragher), “If the Men Don’t Fight, the Women Will’: Women and Gender Roles in the West Virginia Mine Wars,” and Kathryn Tokle of the University of Montana (faculty advisor Anya Jabour), “In the Wake of Disaster and Disease: Widowhood in Butte, America, 1900-1920.”  The Bellush Prize goes to Trish Kahle of the University of Chicago, for “The Graveyard Shift: Energy Industry Reorganization and Rank and File Rebellion in the UMWA, 1963-1973.”  Abstracts for the Wertheimer essays are available here, and an abstract for the Bellush essay is available here.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Our friends over at Labor Arts are hosting an event on Ralph Fasanella.  Starting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, they will be screening “Fasanella,” a short documentary film on the artist Ralph Fasanella, followed by a panel discussion with Ron Carver, Esther Cohen, Gary Schoichet, and others who knew Fasanella or are engaged in current activist art endeavors.

The event will be held at the Brooklyn College Center for Worker Education, at 25 Broadway, 7th Floor (in Lower Manhattan).  Admission is free, but people who are interested should rsvp to info@laborarts.org.

For more information, see their flyer here!

The Metro NY Labor Communications Council presents a panel on

The War on Labor in the Courts and State Legislators

Speakers include Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, Frank Deale, Professor at CUNY School of Law, Jill Furillo, Executive Director of the New York State Nurses Association, and Henry Garrido, Associate Director of DC 37.  Timothy Sheard, the NY Chapter Chair of the National Writers Union, will serve as moderator.

The panel will be held at the National Writers Union offices, 256 W. 38th Street, 12th Floor, between 7th and 8th Avenue.

There is no charge for this event.

See their flyer for more information.