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“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 in American...

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...

Victoria Grieve on Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women of the Federated Press

Get PDF of this article Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women at the Federated Press explores the cooperative labor-focused news service, Federated Press (FP). The FP reached hundreds of labor publications...

Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland

Get PDF of this article Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells the story...