The Wisconsin Labor History Society annual conference and meeting will take place on Saturday, May 10th at IBEW Local 159 in Madison. This year’s theme is “The NLRA and the Working Class: Organizing In and Out of the Law.” Delivering the keynote Stephen Meyer Memorial Lecture will be Ahmed White, the James E. Jones, Jr. Chair in Law at the University of Wisconsin, where he teaches labor and employment law. 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 include two panels, one about the history and future of the NLRA and one about what organizing outside the law might look like, and already looks like here in Wisconsin. Ericka Wills, Associate Professor of the UW-Madison School for Workers, will lead a discussion to wrap up the conference.
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.
Click here to read more about the panelists on our two panels.
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Click here to print a registration form and mail it in with a check.
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