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New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s

“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression.  As a widely popular participatory song, it was an effective tool for labor organizing....

Working 9 to 5

Get PDF of this article Ever wonder if it’s safe to bring an artichoke to lunch when you’re trying to convince someone to speak up on the job? Want to...

For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico

Get PDF of this article At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico, Reynalda González...

Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation

Get PDF of this article In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest Steel Mill...

Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson

Get PDF of this article Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace Holmes Carlson’s...

The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914

Get PDF of this article The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Janet K. Weaver’s essay from behind...