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Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power

In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially.

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Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance

Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards (Cornell University Press) examines the rise of a sustained social movement.

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Steve Striffler and Nick Juravich on The Pandemic and the Working Class

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and editors of books in labor and working-class history, Jacob Remes spoke to.

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Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae

The Hollywood Movie Norma Rae defined working class women’s experiences in the wake of neoliberalism. The film launched Sally Field into a cultural.

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Sean Griffin on The Root and The 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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