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Julie Greene is a historian of United States, transnational, and global labor and immigration. Most recently, she is the author of Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal (UNC Press, 2025), which explores a set of remarkable memoirs written by canal workers (and held in Box 25 at the Library of Congress). Greene has also authored The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal (2009), and Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (1998). She has co-edited two books with Eric Arnesen and Bruce Laurie, Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Diversity of the Working-Class Experience (1998); and with Eileen Boris, Joo Cheong Tham, and Heidi Gottfried, Global Labor Migration: New Directions (2022). Greene has also published numerous articles and book chapters.
LaborOnline LAWCHA New Book Interviews

Julie Greene on Her New Book, Box 25

John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

CFP: OAH 2020 Travel Grants

LAWCHA is proud to be able to offer eight travel grants ($300) to students, contingent faculty, and independent scholars presenting at the 2020 OAH in Washington

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Call for Proposals Opportunity

Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class

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Call for Proposals Opportunity

David Montgomery Award: Deadline October 1

The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best

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LAWCHA

Writing History with Working People as Central Actors

The project was imbued with E. P Thompson’s vision of class as a historical relationship, and of course there was his iconic statement

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LaborOnline

The AHA and the Chicago Hotel Strike

On Sept. 7 UNITE HERE began a strike against 25 hotels in Chicago. The demands focused on year round health insurance and other

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Articles OpEd

“Bad Dudes”: Immigrants, Illegality, and Human Rights

By sweepingly associating immigrants who overstayed their visa or crossed the border improperly with criminal activity, the President built upon a long tradition

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