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A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it produced a robust network of schools for...
The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the essays from behind the paywall. We quickly...
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...