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- by Michael Hillard
- March 23, 2025
Coauthored by Michael Hillard and Chad Pearson The theme of the 2025 Business History Conference (BHC) was “The Business of Labor.” (Held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 13-16). BHC in its annual gathering has long been open to scholars interested in labor and working-class history, and this year’s meeting featured.

Labor: Studies in Working Class History
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1, 2023
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- by Harvey Schwartz
- March 12, 2025
Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 5, 2025
Labor History Bibliography, 2024
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 31, 2025
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- by David Sobel
- January 30, 2025
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals
- January 3, 2025
1934 and Now: History Lives!
- November 22, 2024
Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine
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LaborOnline features perspectives on a host of issues, contemporary and historical.
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To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu). For the public history series, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, contact Alex Lichtenstein, lichtens@indiana.edu
Editorial Team for Labor Online
- John Enyeart, Bucknell University
- Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
- Chad Pearson, University of Texas
- Ian Rocksborough-Smith, University of Fraser Valley
- Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
- Laisions: Alexander Dunphy, Emily LaBarbera Twarog, Michael Hillard
Film & video
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- January 30, 2025
Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
- January 12, 2023
Rails, Jails and Trolleys
- November 28, 2022
Authors new book interviews
Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
- February 5, 2025
Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power
- December 6, 2024
Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite
- January 30, 2024
Book symposia
Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
- August 14, 2020
Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
- July 17, 2020
In Memoriam
Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024
- July 5, 2024
Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)
- May 14, 2023
Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
- April 24, 2023
Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
- November 19, 2022
LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical. To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu).
For information about our prize-winning journal or to contribute, visit LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.