
Duke University Press released the top-read essays of 2022 from LAWCHA’s journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (volume 19). The articles are freely available until January 31, 2023. Pass along this opportunity to sample these essays.
- “I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me, Black Women and Girls and the Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent in Union-Occupied Territory” (vol. 19, no. 1) by Kaisha Esty
- “Class, A Useful Category of Analysis in the History of Sexual Harassment” (vol. 19, no. 1) by Christopher Phelps
- “From Sexual Harassment to Gender Violence at Work, The ILOs Road to Convention #190” (vol. 19, no. 1) by Eileen Boris
- “The Road Not Taken, Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894–1914” (vol. 19, no. 2) by Janet K. Weaver
- “There Is Not a Factory Today Where This Same Immoral Condition Does Not Exist, Strikes against Sexual Harassment, 1912–2019” (vol. 19, no. 1) by Annelise Orleck

Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones.