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David M. Emmons’ provocative new book History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 deploys a wealth of theory and decades of research to reframe our...
When the Cincinnati city government decided in 1930 to build a large new rail station, they chose German immigrant artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953) to decorate parts of the interior with...
Editor’s Note: Erik Bernardino’s compelling essay, “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant, ” published in the December issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, is available from behind...
Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of non-citizens in Canada. The country has a...
Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story of the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO),...
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...