The Alabama Communists in Days of Yore
The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts.
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New Book Interviews
Marla Miller on her new book, Entangled Lives
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. This month, Johns Hopkins University Press publishes Marla.
- by Jacob Remes
- December 12, 2019
Global Affairs
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Workers and the Struggle for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Labor rights and working conditions are at the heart of the struggle for social justice in Chile today. Angela VergaraÁngela Vergara is a.
- by Angela Vergara
- November 20, 2019
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Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers,.
- by Lindsay Bartkowski
- November 17, 2019
Labor History
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Sanders or Warren? Populist-Progressivism or New Deal? Take Your Pick!
Political commentators regularly identify both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as populists. Labor historian Leon Fink dives into the debate over their roots..
- by Leon Fink
- November 13, 2019
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New Book Interviews
Jeremy Zallen on his new book, American Lucifers
Our series of interviews with author of new books in labor and working-class history continues. This month, we speak to Jeremy Zallen, whose.
- by Jacob Remes
- October 16, 2019
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Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Knights of Labor, the most important labor movement of the Gilded Age. It is worth thinking.
- by James Gregory
- October 4, 2019
Film & Video
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Witness to Revolution: Film about Anna Louise Strong Still Gives Insight
One hundred years ago, revolutionary potential was exciting the sensibilities of radicals and counter-revolutionists across the country. In February 1919, the passions and.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 28, 2019
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LAWCHA 2019: Contingent Faculty, Independent Scholars, and LAWCHA
Tula Connell, chair of LAWCHA’s Independent Scholars Committee and Claire Goldstene, chair of the Contingent Faculty Committee organized a Saturday lunch plenary at.
- by Tula Connell
- September 5, 2019
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Wobblies Repressed as (almost) None Others
Paul Buhle’s review of Dean A. Strang, Keep the Wretches In Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department and.
- by Paul Buhle
- August 5, 2019