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- by Peter Cole
- June 19, 2025
Ben Fletcher might be the most important African American labor leader you’ve never heard about. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Fletcher led 4,000 dockworkers out on strike in 1913 and shut down one of the country’s busiest ports for two weeks.

Labor: Studies in Working Class History
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1, 2023
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Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression
- by Randi Storch
- April 25, 2025
Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor
- by Alan Singer
- April 22, 2025
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker
- June 19, 2025
Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals
- January 3, 2025
1934 and Now: History Lives!
- November 22, 2024
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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s
- April 15, 2025
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LaborOnline features perspectives on a host of issues, contemporary and historical.
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To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu). For the public history series, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, contact Alex Lichtenstein, lichtens@indiana.edu
Editorial Team for Labor Online
- John Enyeart, Bucknell University
- Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
- Chad Pearson, University of Texas
- Ian Rocksborough-Smith, University of Fraser Valley
- Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
- Laisions: Alexander Dunphy, Emily LaBarbera Twarog, Michael Hillard
Film & video
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- January 30, 2025
Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
- January 12, 2023
Rails, Jails and Trolleys
- November 28, 2022
Authors new book interviews
Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
- February 5, 2025
Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power
- December 6, 2024
Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite
- January 30, 2024
Book symposia
Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
- August 14, 2020
Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
- July 17, 2020
In Memoriam
Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024
- July 5, 2024
Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)
- May 14, 2023
Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
- April 24, 2023
Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
- November 19, 2022
LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical. To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu).
For information about our prize-winning journal or to contribute, visit LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.