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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union

Get PDF of this article On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72 to unionize...

’Whence Automation’: An Interview

Get PDF of this article In this interview, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein speaks with Salem Elzway (USC) and Jason Resnikoff (Univ. of Groningen), co-authors of the article “Whence Automation: The...

Labor History and History of Science: Better Together

The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts and Alexandra Hui, editors of History of...

“A debt paid for abandoned goals”: A Reflection from What Work Is

Get PDF of this article In recognition of Women’s History Month, I offer the following excerpt from my recently published book, What Work Is. The book is built around six-word...

On Equal Terms-Gender and Solidarity

Get PDF of this article I am deeply pleased that Labor has published a review of my interactive digital installation, On Equal Terms: gender & solidarity, and that Duke University...

Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine

On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of Serene built around the Columbine coalmine, killing...