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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 Depression episodes that dramatically and poignantly show...

Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor

“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble...

Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s

by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s “Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s” is the free essay for Vol....

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

The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys the robust influence of labor reform and antislavery ideas and movements on each other from the early National...

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 the business/labor history overlap that the report...

Business and Labor Historians: Friends till the End

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...