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Justine Modica on Caring Work in Seattle

This essay by Justine Modica is available free until September 30, thanks to Duke University Press. Credit to Labor Online editorial member John.

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Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024

“Professor Gabin,” as I will always remember her, set a standard few of us will meet.  Her research and writing, meticulous and groundbreaking. .

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Bringing Labor History Alive: Reenacting the 1936 St. Louis City Hall Occupation

Every spring, over thirty women union activists are accepted to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, or The Polk School.

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UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes

On Wednesday, May 15, 79% of 48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California  who cast their ballots voted to authorize a.

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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays

In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.

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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare

Charisse Burden-Stelly recently published Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. The book offers a radical and interdisciplinary.

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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?

New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.

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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath

Introduction:  An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.

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Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Beginning with the new Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Julie Greene assumes editorship of the journal. Maia Silber interviewed her for the.

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Reporting Work

A significant source for “Science as Routine” (available for free for the next three months) in the recent issue of Labor on history.

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