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Robert W. Cherny’s new book, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend  (University of Illinois Press, 2023) is a monumental achievement. More than thirty-five years in the making, it is exhaustively...

In fall 1936, the Chicago Public Library initiated the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey, with funding from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the New Deal programs designed to...

In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment of a term, and its history.  “Whence...

Randi Storch: Your engaging and well-written history of American Communism from 1919 to the early 1990s brings together stories of communists’ contributions to American history with an honest reckoning of...

Chad Pearson’s review follows a series of recent posts from Labor Online that reflect on and feature the work of contributors to Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education:...

Co-authors: James Barrett, Shelton Stromquist David Montgomery was a founder of the modern field of labor history. Even long after his death, the field remains molded by his methodologies and...