From Solidarity to Shock Therapy: The AFL-CIO and the Fall of Soviet Communism
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the death of Mikhail Gorbachev this year have sparked renewed interest in the USSR’s 1991 disintegration, a moment.
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In Memoriam
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Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
Staughton Lynd, one of labor history’s icons, died on November 17. He was an academic and activist when those combinations were reviled as.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 19, 2022
Film & Video
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Peterloo and Pedagogy
Editor’s Note: We select a featured essay from each issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History. We’ve never featured a film review,.
- by Richard Wells
- October 13, 2022
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Standing Up: Tales of Struggle A Novel Resource for Labor Leaders
Over five decades of organizing, we’ve seen the power of story to move people. We wanted to write about the workers Imbole Mbue.
- by Ellen Bravo & Larry Miller
- October 10, 2022
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New Book Interviews
The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.
- by Tom Alter
- September 26, 2022
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A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 24, 2022
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An Ambitious and Provocative New History
This essay is the second contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Theresa Case
- September 23, 2022
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A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site
As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..
- by Kelly Bosworth
- September 8, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Creating a Historic Resource Study and StoryMap for Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell National Historical Park (LOWE) was founded in 1978 by the National Park Service. A sprawling site that includes the historic downtown of.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- September 2, 2022