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Kevin Kenny on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Get PDF of this article Kevin Kenny, a noted scholar of labor history and immigration history, has recently published The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in...

COVID-19 and Authoritarian Populism

Get PDF of this article Aditya Sarkar’s essay, “Pandemics, Labor Relations, and Political Regimes: The Bubonic Plague and COVID-19 Crises in India,” in issue 20:2 (May 2023) of Labor: Studies...

Work, Disaster, and the Lost Possibilities of Pandemic Politics

Get PDF of this article This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History. Jacob Remes frames the Covid pandemic...

The Making and Breaking of a Popular Front: The Case of the National Negro Congress

Get PDF of this article This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History. Eric Arnesen discusses the main arguments...

Labor and Public Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Get PDF of this article Few memorial landscapes have changed as much over the past decade than Montgomery, Alabama, the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” At one time, the city’s best...

Francis Ryan: Memories of the Labor of School Crossing Guards

Get PDF of this article Beginning with this essay, we initiate a series on essays that are appearing in the journal Labor. This one is the backstory to how Francis...