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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners

What originally brought you to this project, and what motivated you to bring the project out in book form now?I am a 1960s.

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Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals

When the Cincinnati city government decided in 1930 to build a large new rail station, they chose German immigrant artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953).

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Erik Bernardino’s “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant”: Free Essay available

Editor’s Note: Erik Bernardino’s compelling essay, “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant, ” published in the December issue of Labor: Studies in.

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International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada

Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of.

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1934 and Now: History Lives!

     Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country.  An employers’ organization (the.

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The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity

I am a scholar of the eighteenth century, specializing in cultural representations of women and their writing. While drafting my most recent book,.

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“A People’s University”: Communist Workers’ Schools, 1923-1956

A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it.

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David Montgomery’s Legacy in the Field of Working-Class History

Co-authors: James Barrett, Shelton Stromquist David Montgomery was a founder of the modern field of labor history. Even long after his death, the.

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Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024

“Professor Gabin,” as I will always remember her, set a standard few of us will meet.  Her research and writing, meticulous and groundbreaking. .

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Bringing Labor History Alive: Reenacting the 1936 St. Louis City Hall Occupation

Every spring, over thirty women union activists are accepted to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, or The Polk School.

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