As a union researcher who uses participatory research methods, I was particularly interested in the chapter that discussed Maria Mies’s study of lace.
Eileen Boris’ meticulously researched and detailed book, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019, reveals some enduring.
Eileen Boris details the history of how the International Labor Organization (ILO) moved from positioning the male industrial worker in imperial centers to.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we are pleased to host a roundtable discussion on Eileen Boris’ new book, Making the Woman Worker:.
The dual enrollment programs offered to cash-strapped students and parents imposes a specific labor burden on sometimes low-paid faculty. We need a solution.
The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts.
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. This month, Johns Hopkins University Press publishes Marla.
Labor rights and working conditions are at the heart of the struggle for social justice in Chile today. Angela VergaraÁngela Vergara is a.
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers,.
Political commentators regularly identify both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as populists. Labor historian Leon Fink dives into the debate over their roots..