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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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