Jacob Remes
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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union

On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72

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Work, Disaster, and the Lost Possibilities of Pandemic Politics

This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History.  Jacob Remes frames the

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Alexandra Finley on Her New Book, An Intimate Economy

Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Alexandra Finley, author of the new book

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship

Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Verónica Martínez-Matsuda. The University of Pennsylvania Press

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Philip Rubio on his New Book, Undelivered

Our series of interviews of authors of news books in labor and working-class history continues. Philip F. Rubio’s latest book, Undelivered: From the

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Lachlan MacKinnon on his new book, Closing Sysco

June 11 is Davis Day, a holiday originating in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, that honors the martyrs of the labor movement. It marks

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Covid-19, the Halifax Explosion, and Crises of Care

One of the first principles of critical disaster studies is that disasters exist not as time-out-of-time, but as embedded in the times and

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Marla Miller on her new book, Entangled Lives

Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. This month, Johns Hopkins University Press publishes Marla

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Jeremy Zallen on his new book, American Lucifers

Our series of interviews with author of new books in labor and working-class history continues. This month, we speak to Jeremy Zallen, whose

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Labor Histories of Disaster Panel at #LAWCHA2019

 Ed: This is one of a series of conference notes from the recent LAWCHA conference. If you have reflections from one of the

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