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Harvey Schwartz on John Womack’s Labor Strategy

Labor Power and Strategy (PM Press, 2023)John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for.

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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners

Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the.

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Labor History Bibliography, 2024

This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a.

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The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films

Labor historians in the United States and Canada often rely on familiar sources, union and company records, newspapers and oral interviews, to name.

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David Emmons on his New Book, History’s Erratics

David M. Emmons’ provocative new book History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 deploys a wealth of theory.

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Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals

When the Cincinnati city government decided in 1930 to build a large new rail station, they chose German immigrant artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953).

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Erik Bernardino’s “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant”: Free Essay available

Editor’s Note: Erik Bernardino’s compelling essay, “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant, ” published in the December issue of Labor: Studies in.

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International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada

Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of.

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Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power

Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story of.

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1934 and Now: History Lives!

     Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country.  An employers’ organization (the.

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