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Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression

Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great.

by Randi Storch
April 25, 2025

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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s

by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia HillsPhilip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930sThe cover of the newly designed Labor: Studies in.

by Kathy M. Newman
April 15, 2025

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Sean Griffin on Root and Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys.

by Rosemary Feurer
April 9, 2025

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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.