Category Archives: News

New Journal

SLSA members may want to know of the appearance of a new on-line, open access journal, the Journal of Florida Studies http://journaloffloridastudies.org/  While its contents are not confined to labor history, it does promise to be a publication open to a wide variety of genres.  An article of SLSA’s own Bob Zieger on African Americans and World War I appears in the inaugural issue: “Grudgingly, Unwillingly, Almost Insultingly”: Racial Progress in the Era of the Great War.
Guidelines for submission of original work can be found at http://journaloffloridastudies.org/submission.html.

New Newsletter

Check out a PDF of the  latest print edition SLSA Newsletter (Volume 2, Number 2 – Fall 2011) , hot off the press and in the mail to all SLSA members.  Let’s hear it for our editors, Beth English and Joey Fink!

For archived issues, click here.

SLSA Events at the SHA!

Please join us for one or both of the SLSA sessions at this year’s SHA meeting:

TELLING LABOR’S STORIES IN THE SOUTH: A WORKSHOP ON PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH LABOR HISTORY

Friday, October 28: 4:45 P.M. Pratt A; Session 28.

Sponsored by the Southern Labor Studies Association

PRESIDING: David Zonderman, North Carolina State University

  • Engaging Public Schoolteachers in Southern Labor History: Lessons from the Teaching American History Program; Robert Korstad, Duke University
  • Teaching and Writing Southern Labor History for Young Audiences; Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary
  • Southern Labor History and Contemporary Political Debates: Writing and Publishing Op-Eds;David Zonderman, North Carolina State University

SOUTHERN LABOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON

Saturday, October 29: 11:45 A.M.-1:30 P.M. Shula’s PDR; Session 41.

PRESIDING: Jennifer E. Brooks, Auburn University

John Bull Meets Jim Crow: Jamaican Guest Workers in the Wartime South

Cindy Hahamovich, College of William and Mary

Co-sponsored by the Southern Industrialization Project, and the

History Departments of the University of Maryland, College Park, and

Georgetown University.

To be followed by the Annual Members Meeting.

To register for this catered luncheon, send a check for $15.00, by October 10, made payable to

Southern Labor Studies Assn.
c/o Evan Bennett, Treasurer
Department of History
AH 107
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431

Freedom U: Georgia Profs Offer Course to Illegal Immigrants

SLSA stalwart members at UGA have launched an innovative response to the South’s war on undocumented workers.  Check out the Associated Press coverage of their awesome work (–Ed.)

Georgia profs offer course to illegal immigrants (Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Also available on the Huffington Post)

How to help:
Donate books and transportation for students:
Sign the petition: