New York Labor History Association
A bridge between past and present
The fir
st NYLHA book review of March 2019 is by Kelsey Harrison, who reviewed John F. Levin and Earl Silbar’s new book, You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Building a Worker-Student Alliance.
For previous book reviews, click here.
NYLHA is proud to announce that the 2018 winner of the Bernard Bellush Prize
for outstanding scholarship by graduate students in labor and work history is
Erin Durham, a graduate student at the University of Maryland.
In her essay, “Strike for Labor Rights: Prison Reform in Maryland During the Early Twentieth Century,” Durham explains the transition from a contract labor system to a state-use system in Maryland’s state prisons. Focusing on the labor issues in prison reform, she reveals the close relationship of prison labor and revenue generation.
Congratulations Erin!
A couple of the dates for upcoming events listed in the latest Work History News were incorrect, but a new version of the newsletter and corrected event dates can be found below!
Tuesday, April 9, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Tamiment Library, NYU
BOOK TALK: Clarence Taylor, Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
Monday, May 6, 6:30 p.m. Museum of the City of New York
The 9th Annual Clara Lemlich Awards
Friday, May 10 – Wednesday, May 22
Workers Unite Film Festival, NYC
Saturday, May 11, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Tamiment Library, NYU – reception to follow
New York Labor History Annual Conference:
Labor and the Green New Deal
Wednesday, May 1, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, 325 Hudson St., 3rd Fl. (Corner of Hudson and VanDam), Manhattan
BOOK TALK: Joshua Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World