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Work, Disaster, and the Lost Possibilities of Pandemic Politics

Get PDF of this article 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...

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

Get PDF of this article 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...

Labor and Public Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Get PDF of this article 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...

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Francis Ryan: Memories of the Labor of School Crossing Guards

Get PDF of this article 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...

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

Get PDF of this article 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...

Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country

Get PDF of this article 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...