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I am a scholar of the eighteenth century, specializing in cultural representations of women and their writing. While drafting my most recent book, Laboring Women: Reproducing Women and Work in...
The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my introduction, as guest editor, of this September ...
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...