Max Fraser on his new book, Hillbilly Highway
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class explores one of the most significant and under-examined migrations in.
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New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969
This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.
- by Nikki Mandell
- November 27, 2023
Issues of Labor
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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.
- by John McKerley
- November 24, 2023
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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.
- by Lucas Poy
- November 16, 2023
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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.
- by LAWCHA Board of Directors
- November 10, 2023
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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.
- by Jason Resnikoff
- November 8, 2023
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New Book Interviews
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.
- by Randi Storch
- November 3, 2023
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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.
- by John McKerley
- November 1, 2023
Issues of Labor
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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.
- by John McKerley
- October 23, 2023
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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,.
- by William Herbert
- October 21, 2023