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Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country.  An employers’ organization (the “Citizens’ Alliance”) leveraged the power of banks, manufacturers, and...

HS: It is an honor to be asked by Professor Rosemary Feurer of LaborOnline to interview Robert W. Cherny about his monumental 2023 biography of Harry Bridges. Dr. Cherny has...

I am a scholar of the eighteenth century, specializing in cultural representations of women and their writing. While drafting my most recent book, Laboring Women: Reproducing Women and Work in...

The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my introduction, as guest editor, of this September ...

A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it produced a robust network of schools for...

The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the essays from behind the paywall. We quickly...