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Save Our History: Matewan, Memory, and the State Historical Society of Iowa

I know you’re busy, dear labor history colleagues, so I’m going to put this ask right at the top even though it messes.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Brian Kwoba on his new book, Hubert Harrison

Brian Kwoba’s Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism offers an intellectual history of Harrison’s race-first labor activism and community organizing. Dr. Kwoba.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power

In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially.

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Abundance: a Labor History Critique

Abundance (2025) by Ezra Klein and William ThompsonWhat remains to be said about Abundance, the book that’s launched a thousand takes? Authors Ezra.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance

Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards (Cornell University Press) examines the rise of a sustained social movement.

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LaborOnline LAWCHA

Why Everything Is So Unaffordable

Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, recently won the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor by campaigning on the need to make.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Fayetteville Remembers Enslaved Laborer Who Ensured Canada Remained a Safe Refuge

Over the last two years, the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, working with the University of Arkansas Humanities Center, has erected a historical marker,.

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Workers and the U.S. Civil War

This is one of a small number of postings from the LAWCHA 2025 conference panels. If you have a summary from the conference,.

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LaborOnline LAWCHA

Political Economy at LAWCHA 2025

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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