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A Seat at the Table – Update Part 3

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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Shades of Internationalism – The Left’s Complex Relationship with Immigration

Lucas Poy writes about the questions and some of the conclusions of his recently published essay in Labor: Studies of Working Class History.

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Media and Memory The Battle of Blair Mountain

“Logan County Bristles with Machine Guns… Gaunt Hollow-eyed Men hold Ridges…Every Path is Guarded.” On September 1st, 1921, Washington Times announced that headline.

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The Labor Movement Made Me a Labor Historian

I became a labor historian in the spring of 2014. This was unexpected. I was already in the third year of a doctoral.

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Janine Giordano Drake on her new book, The Gospel of Church

The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement, just published by Janine Giordano Drake (Oxford University.

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A Seat at the Table New Voices from the Struggle to Organize Young, Service-Sector Workers in the US

This is the first in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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A Seat at the Table – Update Part 2

THIS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES THAT UPDATES AND EXTENDS JOHN MCKERLEY’S ESSAY IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING.

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The 2022-23 Upsurge of Union Organizing and Strikes in Higher Education

As this report documents, the recent uptick in union organizing has not been large enough to reverse the long-term decline in union density,.

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William D. Riddell On the Waves of Empire U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed William D. Riddell about his new book On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924, published by.

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Michael Pierce Testifies about the Origin of Right to Work

In March 2023 historian Michael Pierce testified on the origins of right to work before the Michigan Senate Labor Committee when it was.

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