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.
- by Robert Zecker
- September 22, 2024
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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.
- by John Enyeart
- July 17, 2024
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
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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. .
- by Lisa Philips
- July 5, 2024
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
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.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- June 13, 2024
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UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes
On Wednesday, May 15, 79% of 48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California who cast their ballots voted to authorize a.
- by Dana Frank
- May 30, 2024
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays
In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.
- by Bob Bruno
- May 29, 2024
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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare
Charisse Burden-Stelly recently published Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. The book offers a radical and interdisciplinary.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- May 3, 2024
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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?
New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.
- by Alan Singer
- April 25, 2024
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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath
Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.
- by Robin Lindley
- April 19, 2024