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Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

Get PDF of this article The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys the robust influence of labor reform and antislavery ideas and movements on each...

Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go?

Get PDF of this article I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among the business/labor...

Business and Labor Historians: Friends till the End

Get PDF of this article Coauthored by Michael Hillard and  Chad Pearson The theme of the 2025 Business History Conference (BHC) was “The Business of Labor.” (Held in Atlanta, Georgia,...

Harvey Schwartz on John Womack’s Labor Strategy

Get PDF of this article John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for how workers can leverage their latent power and...

Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners

Get PDF of this article Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the United Mine...

Labor History Bibliography, 2024

Get PDF of this article This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a book published...