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AFL-CIO Statement of Principles: We Want a Just and Decent World

Historically, the AFL-CIO has had at best a checkered record with its positions on American foreign policy and its support for broader social.

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Colleen O’Neill on her new book, Waging Sovereignty

In Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, historian Colleen O’Neill examines the rise of wage work as a.

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The Work of Forgetting

Nate Holdren’s essay “The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States” in Labor: Studies.

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Introduction to The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition: A Forum

The explosion in nativism, authoritarianism, and rightwing populism in recent years has unleashed a roiling debate over whether fascism presents or has ever.

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The Vision of the Municipal Left: Free Essay from Labor 23:2

The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 23:2 is out now. Thanks to Duke University Press, an essay by Kim.

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A Fighting Anti-Fascist Army

Like many Black soldiers conscripted in the segregated armed forces during World War II, Burt Jackson did not need did need battlefield instruction.

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Response to “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education”

For the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Duke University is making free  a transcribed conversation provoked by the ongoing.

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New Essay published to Teaching Labor’s Story: Free Labor and Slavery, 1800-1830, by Sean Griffin

Check out Sean Griffin’s thematic essay for Teaching Labor’s Stry, “Free Labor and Slavery, 1800-1830.” Griffin’s essay is adding to our listing of.

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Public History on the San Francisco Waterfront

Professional historians often talk about the need for public education and public history. A year and a half ago, San Franciscans completed one.

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“Communal Sensibility”: the Minneapolis Mass Strikes of 1934 and Today

“In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote of Minneapolis in 1934. “No one can be neutral in.

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