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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New Book Interviews
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
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.
- by Peter Rachleff
- November 22, 2024
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An Interview with Historian Robert Cherny, Author of Harry Bridges
HS: It is an honor to be asked by Professor Rosemary Feurer of LaborOnline to interview Robert W. Cherny about his monumental 2023.
- by Harvey Schwartz
- October 30, 2024
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The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity
I am a scholar of the eighteenth century, specializing in cultural representations of women and their writing. While drafting my most recent book,.
- by Ellen Ledoux
- October 28, 2024
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Labor in the Civil War
The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my.
- by Matthew Stanley
- October 22, 2024
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“A People’s University”: Communist Workers’ Schools, 1923-1956
A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it.
- by Robert Zecker
- September 22, 2024
Issues of Labor
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective
The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 18, 2024
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Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherny’s book on Harry Bridges
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. ChernyRobert W. Cherny’s new book, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (University of Illinois.
- by Harvey Schwartz
- August 12, 2024
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Teaching Labor History With the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey
In fall 1936, the Chicago Public Library initiated the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey, with funding from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), one.
- by Liat Spiro
- August 6, 2024
Issues of Labor
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Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation
In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 1, 2024