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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...

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...

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Get PDF of this article If you blinked, you might have missed the historical marker dedicated to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at the site of her childhood home in Concord, New...

Big Win for Victims of Racist Restrictive Covenants

Get PDF of this article On April 23, 2023, the Washington state legislature passed the Covenants Homeownership Act (CHA), pioneering legislation that will provide compensation to victims of the racist...