Jacob Remes
Jacob Remes

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Jacob Remes is a historian of modern North America with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. He is a founding co-editor of the <em>Journal of Disaster Studies</em>, the co-editor, with Andy Horowitz, of<em> Critical Disaster Studies</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and a series co-editor of the Penn Press book series<em> Critical Studies of Risk and Disaster.</em> His first book, <em>Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era </em>(University of Illinois Press, 2016) examined the working class response to and experience of the Salem, Massachusetts, Fire of 1914 and the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Explosion of 1917. He has also written scholarly articles on a variety of other subjects ranging from interwar Social Catholicism to Indigenous land rights to transnational printers in the 19th century. His popular writing on subjects relating to his research has appeared in the <em>Nation, Atlantic, Time, Salon, </em>and elsewhere. Before coming to Gallatin,
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Steve Striffler and Nick Juravich on The Pandemic and the Working Class

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and editors of books in labor and working-class history, Jacob Remes spoke to

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Sampling LAWCHA Sessions — Friday June 13

We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. If you

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Opening Plenary: “Solidarity & Work in Chicago: Past and Present”

This year’s LAWCHA conference began with a reminder that we have come to a particular place, with a particular history: Chicago. Three scholars

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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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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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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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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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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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