Labor History Bibliography, 2024
This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a.
Film & Video
LaborOnline
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
Labor historians in the United States and Canada often rely on familiar sources, union and company records, newspapers and oral interviews, to name.
- by David Sobel
- January 30, 2025
LaborOnline
David Emmons on his New Book, History’s Erratics
David M. Emmons’ provocative new book History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 deploys a wealth of theory.
- by J. Hollis Harris
- January 22, 2025
Labor History
LaborOnline
LAWCHA
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals
When the Cincinnati city government decided in 1930 to build a large new rail station, they chose German immigrant artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953).
- by Thurman Wenzl
- January 3, 2025
Issues of Labor
Labor History
LaborOnline
Erik Bernardino’s “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant”: Free Essay available
Editor’s Note: Erik Bernardino’s compelling essay, “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant, ” published in the December issue of Labor: Studies in.
- by Erik Bernardino
- December 28, 2024
Global Affairs
LaborOnline
LAWCHA
International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada
Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of.
- by Dale M. McCartney
- December 12, 2024
LaborOnline
New Book Interviews
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.
- by Joseph Rathke
- December 6, 2024
LaborOnline
LAWCHA
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
LaborOnline
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
Labor History
LaborOnline
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