Labor and Working-Class History Association

Thursday, January 8, 2026

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Reading Communist Subversion in the Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 14

Containment and Relocation Across North America: New Directions in 20th-Century Mexican and Central American Migration
AHA Session 19

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Unlikely Subjects of Biography: Writing Mid-20th-Century US Court Cases as Narrative History
AHA Session 40

Biographies of Capital Between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Worlds
AHA Session 48

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


From Wheat Fields to Ballot Boxes: Farmers, Populism, Paranoia, and the Fight for Rural Power
AHA Session 57

Energy, Ethnicity, and Economics: Everyday Politics in Post–World War II Eurasian Coal-Mining Regions
AHA Session 61

Mapping Resistance and Memories: Digitizing Community Histories of Migration, Labor, and Resistance
AHA Session 64

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Global Commodities and Local Transformations: Silver, Cotton, Labor, and Land in Late Qing and Republican China
AHA Session 143

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


The History of Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
AHA Session 155

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


The Arts as Labor: Working-Class Performances in the 19th- and 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 184

New Research on Empire and Labor in the Americas and Beyond
AHA Session 191

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


(Un)Freedom: Imperial Geographies of Labor, Displacement, and Control
AHA Session 207

Spaces and Places of Convergence in 20th-Century American Radicalism
AHA Session 220

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Foreign Policy and Organized Labor During the Cold War: New History of a Pivotal Era
AHA Session 232

Production and Manufacturing in the East Asian Developmental State
AHA Session 244

Sunday, January 11, 2026

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Making Law, Knowing Capitalism: Cross-Regional Perspectives on Agrarian and Urban Modernity
AHA Session 293