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Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go?

I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among.

by Nate Holdren
March 27, 2025

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Business and Labor Historians: Friends till the End

Coauthored by Michael Hillard and Chad PearsonThe theme of the 2025 Business History Conference (BHC) was “The Business of Labor.” (Held in Atlanta,.

by Michael Hillard
March 23, 2025

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Harvey Schwartz on John Womack’s Labor Strategy

Labor Power and Strategy (PM Press, 2023)John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for.

by Harvey Schwartz
March 12, 2025

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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.

by Rosemary Feurer
February 5, 2025

Labor History LaborOnline LAWCHA Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

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).

by Thurman Wenzl
January 3, 2025

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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.

by Dale M. McCartney
December 12, 2024

LaborOnline LAWCHA Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

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.