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Finding Oil Women: Images of Oil’s Clerical Workforce Challenge Industry-Cultivated Myth of Rugged Masculinity

The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move  Sara Stanford McIntyre’s essay.

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Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War

Is there life after coal, what future for the collier? The scab and the hardliner both, wear the blue scars of the miner.

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Kim Scipes & Jeff Schuhrke: An Exchange

We received the following post from Kim Scipes, objecting to Jeff Schuhrke’s essay about the AFL-CIO’s foreign policy, posted November 22.  Schuhrke’s reply.

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Two Decades of LABOR History: An Interview with Leon Fink

Editors note: LAWCHA members will be receiving an abbreviated version of this essay in the 2022 newsletter. We are glad to be able.

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The Most-Read essays of 2022 from Labor: Studies in Working Class History

Duke University Press released the top-read essays of 2022 from LAWCHA’s journal,  Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (volume 19). The articles are freely.

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Michael Hillard on his book, Shredding Paper

A Conversation between Emily E. LB. Twarog and Michael Hillard, author of Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry.

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Bryan D. Palmer on his new book, James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism

Chad Pearson recently interviewed Bryan Palmer about this new book,  James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938.

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The Worlds of American Communism: An Interview with Author Joshua Morris

Joshua Morris has published The Many Worlds of American Communism in September. Morris completed his Ph.D. at Wayne State University and teaches at.

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“Lions Led by Asses”

While labor historians have organized a letter signing campaign to the Biden administration asking them to grant some concession to rail workers, others.

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Rails, Jails and Trolleys

Rails, Jails, & Trolleys is a feature-length documentary, directed by Henna Mann and produced by the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) at the University.

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