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Featured Blogs
- by Janine Giordano Drake, Nick Juravich
- August 21, 2025
In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially conceived as a cheaper way to distribute care labor within urban schools managing the baby boom.

Labor: Studies in Working Class History
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1, 2023
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Abundance: a Labor History Critique
- by Luke Masa
- August 15, 2025
Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance
- by Patrick Dixon
- August 8, 2025
Why Everything Is So Unaffordable
- by Alan Singer
- August 1, 2025
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Springfield, Illinois Marker Honors Black Union Activist
- June 26, 2025
Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker
- June 19, 2025
Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals
- January 3, 2025
Labor: Studies in Working Class History
Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s
- April 15, 2025
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective
- September 18, 2024
About
LaborOnline features perspectives on a host of issues, contemporary and historical.
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To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu). For the public history series, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, contact Alex Lichtenstein, lichtens@indiana.edu
Editorial Team for Labor Online
- John Enyeart, Bucknell University
- Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
- Chad Pearson, University of Texas
- Ian Rocksborough-Smith, University of Fraser Valley
- Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
- Laisions: Alexander Dunphy, Emily LaBarbera Twarog, Michael Hillard
Film & video
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- January 30, 2025
Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
- January 12, 2023
Rails, Jails and Trolleys
- November 28, 2022
Authors new book interviews
Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power
- August 21, 2025
Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance
- August 8, 2025
Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae
- July 12, 2025
Book symposia
Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
- August 14, 2020
Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
- July 17, 2020
In Memoriam
Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024
- July 5, 2024
Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)
- May 14, 2023
Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
- April 24, 2023
Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
- November 19, 2022
LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical. To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu).
For information about our prize-winning journal or to contribute, visit LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.