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Work, Disaster, and the Lost Possibilities of Pandemic Politics

This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History. Jacob Remes frames the Covid pandemic to disaster studies, lending his...

The Making and Breaking of a Popular Front: The Case of the National Negro Congress

This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History. Eric Arnesen discusses the main arguments of his recently published essay...

Labor and Public Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Few memorial landscapes have changed as much over the past decade than Montgomery, Alabama, the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” At one time, the city’s best known historic site and museum...

Francis Ryan: Memories of the Labor of School Crossing Guards

Beginning with this essay, we initiate a series on essays that are appearing in the journal Labor. This one is the backstory to how Francis Ryan, an expert on public...

Jake S. Friedman on The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War and Animation’s Golden Age

Lisa Phillips interviewed Jake S. Friedman, author of The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War and Animation’s Golden Age, published by the Chicago Review Press in 2022. Friedman makes use...

Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country

Steven Beda’s essay, “‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man’: Environmental Conflict and Working-Class Politics in Oregon Timber Country, 1970–Present,” in issue 19:1 (March 2023) of Labor: Studies in...