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Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Beginning with the new Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Julie Greene assumes editorship of the journal. Maia Silber interviewed her for the recent LAWCHA newsletter, and this is an...

Reporting Work

A significant source for “Science as Routine” (available for free for the next three months) in the recent issue of Labor on history and the history of science are the...

What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union

On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72 to unionize and form the largest union...

’Whence Automation’: An Interview

In this interview, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein speaks with Salem Elzway (USC) and Jason Resnikoff (Univ. of Groningen), co-authors of the article “Whence Automation: The History (and Possible Futures) of...

Labor History and History of Science: Better Together

The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts and Alexandra Hui, editors of History of...

“A debt paid for abandoned goals”: A Reflection from What Work Is

In recognition of Women’s History Month, I offer the following excerpt from my recently published book, What Work Is. The book is built around six-word essays written by adult workers...