Start! A Labor Drama
Teaching Labor’s Story is excited to add a labor drama to LAWCHA’s labor history sourcebook: START! A Play in Seven Scenes. Written and produced.
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Sex and the Power of Publicity: OCAW in the 1970s
Sarah Milov’s essay,“Damned Women: Fetal Protection as Employer Offensive at American Cyanamid,” in the December 2025 issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class.
- by Sarah Milov
- January 23, 2026
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Going Public: LABOR’s Newest Section
I am thrilled to announce a new collaboration between LaborOnline and LABOR: Studies in Working Class History called Going Public. As a new.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- January 5, 2026
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Don’t Stand Alone: Working Together and Sharing Stories of Black Labor Activism
In light of current attacks on labor unions, Black history, academic freedom, and public humanities, we are grateful to be able to share.
- by José Cotto, Max Krochmal, Jana K. Lipman, Mary Niall Mitchell, M. G. Olson
- January 2, 2026
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Labor 2025 Big Book Forum: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery
On October 17, historian Rudi Batzell presented at the Labor 2025 Big Book forum about his new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow.
- by Joseph Rathke
- November 14, 2025
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“Scrap Iron Becomes Bullets”: When Dockers Fought Fascism with Direct Action
To protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza, dockworkers in Genoa, Italy attempted to convince their fellow workers in ports across Europe and North.
- by Peter Cole
- October 23, 2025
In Memoriam
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Remembering Kent Wong, champion of worker rights and education
Kent Wong, long time Director of the UCLA Labor Center, passed away October 8 at the age of 69. He will be remembered.
- by Tobias Higbie
- October 14, 2025
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Tom Alter: Campaign for Reinstatement after Firing
LAWCHA has issued a powerful statement of support for LAWCHA member and historian Tom Alter, who was recently fired without due process from.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 27, 2025
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Why Everything Is So Unaffordable
Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, recently won the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor by campaigning on the need to make.
- by Alan Singer
- August 1, 2025
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Political Economy at LAWCHA 2025
We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. If you.
- by Michael Hillard
- July 15, 2025