Sean Griffin on Root and Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys.
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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 5, 2025
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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
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Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite
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 Rachel Donaldson
- January 30, 2024
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James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2024
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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.
- by Joseph Rathke
- December 15, 2023
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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.
- by Randi Storch
- November 3, 2023
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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.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- August 31, 2023
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Dear LAWCHA members and supporters,Please join The Labor and Working Class History Association on August 24, 2023 at 7PM EDT for a discussion.
- by LAWCHA Board of Directors
- August 27, 2023
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Kevin Kenny on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic
Kevin Kenny, a noted scholar of labor history and immigration history, has recently published The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing.
- by J. Hollis Harris
- August 4, 2023