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The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement, just published by Janine Giordano Drake (Oxford University Press, 2023), chronicles the battles between Christian...

This is the first in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, which has been made freely ...

THIS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES THAT UPDATES AND EXTENDS JOHN MCKERLEY’S ESSAY IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING CLASS HISTORY, WHICH IS FREELY ...
As this report documents, the recent uptick in union organizing has not been large enough to reverse the long-term decline in union density, yet the labor movement revitalization of the...
Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed William D. Riddell about his new book On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023. ...

In March 2023 historian Michael Pierce testified on the origins of right to work before the Michigan Senate Labor Committee when it was debating the repeal.  The Michigan AFL-CIO had...