LABOR AND WORKING HISTORY ASSOCIATION (LAWCHA) GRADUATE RESEARCH PAPER AWARD

The Labor and Working Class History Association is delighted to announce its fourth annual graduate research paper award competition. The award's purpose is to stimulate research in working class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the field. The award includes a check for $500, a certificate, and inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, October 2004.

The award committee (James Barrett of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Kevin Boyle of Ohio State University and Laurie Mercier of Washington State University-Vancouver) solicits either direct submissions or faculty nominations of substantial original research papers of approximately 35 pages in length (not MA theses or dissertation chapters) regardless of geographic or chronological field. The candidate for the award must be a graduate student at the time of the application or nomination. Four hard copies of each paper should be mailed to the address below.

DEADLINE: February 1, 2004 (Papers received after this date cannot be considered.)

ANNOUNCEMENT: On or about March 15, 2004