We write with exciting news of the takeoff of LaborOnline, a new blog on
the LAWCHA website that will deepen and extend the content of LAWCHA's
flagship journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
Piloted by new Associate Editor Rosemary Feurer--and assisted by an
all-star cast of designated blog contributors--LaborOnline will feature
commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical, as well as
"instant" dialogue and debate among readers and authors about the contents
of the print journal.
Join the fun at http://www.lawcha.org/LaborOnline. Just log in (there's a
helpful, easy set of videos to get you
started) and follow the ongoing discussions. Throw in your two cents there
or suggest a new thread of your choosing!
Leon Fink
Shel Stromquist
Ryan Poe, LAWCHA executive assistant, adds the following:
I am excited to work with such a great group of folks getting this new
initiative off the ground, and hope it serves as a lasting platform for
discussion and intellectual creativity for LAWCHA and labor history as a
whole. To facilitate full discussion and ease of use, I have created a
handful of helpful video tutorials for WordPress that can help you get
started: http://www.lawcha.org/wordpress/reading-and-discussion-help/
We are still working out kinks in both LaborOnline and the new LAWCHA
website, so I invite everyone to do their best to find bugs or come up with
some suggestions for LaborOnline (and LAWCHA itself, if you have the time).
If you have questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns, please direct
them to lawcha [at] duke.edu
Best!
Ryan Poe, Duke University
Executive Assistant
Labor and Working-Class History Association
[cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]