Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Ian Rocksborough-Smith

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Naomi R Williams (they/them) received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their primary research interests include labor and working-class history, urban history and politics, gender and women, race and politics, and more broadly, social and economic movements of working people. Naomi focuses on worker voice and late-capitalism at the end of the 20th century. Naomi’s research also examines the ways working people impact local and national political economies and the ways workers participate in collaborative social justice movements. Naomi engages working-class history in urban settings, looking at low-wage service work, industrial employment, and workers in higher education. Their first book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin (2025), uses life histories of union leaders and labor community resources to examine the transformation of class identity and politics in the second half of the twentieth century.
LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Naomi R Williams on their new book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity

A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin (2025)Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Naomi R Williams about their recent book, A Blueprint

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Boris Roundtable: From Othering to Inclusion

Eileen Boris details the history of how the International Labor Organization (ILO) moved from positioning the male industrial worker in imperial centers to

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