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2025 Labor History Bibliography

Here’s my annual list of books published in labor history, this one for 2025. If you know of a book published last year.

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Maryland250 Labor History Project

The big questions for labor historians interested in public history are: what for? And who for?What for: to help build a real labor.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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