On June 8th and 9th, the Labor Research Action Network (LRAN) hosted its 2017 national conference at Howard University co-sponsored by the Political Science department.   This was LRAN’s first convening at Howard, one of the nation’s oldest Historically Black College and Universities.  The recent presidential election has emboldened the most white supremacist, sexist, homophobic, and […]

The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a dynamic collaborative effort to connect workers’ rights organizations, academics and students to build workplace and economic power for working people in this country. The LRAN online community includes a website, listserve, and an experts database to facilitate connections between scholars and practitioners working on worker campaigns. […]

BY JEFF SCHUHRKE When 100,000 protesters occupied the Wisconsin State Capitol in early 2011 in an attempt to thwart Governor Scott Walker’s bill revoking the rights of public sector employees, a group of labor researchers and scholars were motivated to coordinate their efforts to better serve the interests of the working class. “We knew we […]