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The San Francisco General Strike: A Dramatic Excerpt from Robert Cherny’s New Book

Get PDF of this article Robert Cherny recently published A Short History of San Francisco. We are grateful that University of Nevada Press has allowed Labor Online to have a...

Mary Anne Trasciatti on her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Get PDF of this article In Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (2025), historian Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s path to becoming one of the...

“There’s No ‘We’ Working Twelves”: Norma Rae Comes to Des Moines

Get PDF of this article Hello online labor friends. I wanted to write a quick report on an Iowa Labor History Society (ILHS) event here in Des Moines. I should...

Scabs, Class Traitors, and Seminars: A Year at Harvard

Get PDF of this article During the 2025-2026 academic school year, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center hosted a fantastic, year-long seminar series focused on labor history: “Labor and Political Economy...

Ruby Oram on her new book, Home Work

Get PDF of this article Ruby Oram’s Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines how working people and...

Rethinking Employee Retraining: Lessons from the 1980s

Get PDF of this article We asked Neil Johnson-Rogers to introduce readers to some of his findings, published in the new issue of Labor, about the vaunted autoworker retraining programs...