Ruby Oram on her new book, Home Work
Ruby Oram’s Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines how working.
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New Book Interviews
Black Anti-Fascist Forum
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Bringing the truth of a world that is dawning: A Black Cuban educator in the Spanish Civil War
This blog is the third in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”Black Cuban educator, socialist, feminist, and antifascist Rosa Pastora Leclerc.
- by Ariel Mae Lambe
- May 2, 2026
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Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power
In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially.
- by Janine Giordano Drake, Nick Juravich
- August 21, 2025
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United Campus Workers of South Carolina
In the spring of 2019, workers at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) organized after a controversial university Presidential search highlighted campus-wide dissatisfaction.
- by Stephanie Riley
- October 9, 2020
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Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers,.
- by Lindsay Bartkowski
- November 17, 2019
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Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Knights of Labor, the most important labor movement of the Gilded Age. It is worth thinking.
- by James Gregory
- October 4, 2019
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The University of Iowa Labor Center and the Attacks on Labor
The attacks on labor these days take many forms. Some are straight-forward and brutally confrontational—the Janus ruling or the state legislation in Iowa.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- July 30, 2018
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The Polk School – Women’s Leadership Development and Labor Extension
In 1988, the Labor Education Program (a labor studies extension school) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- February 6, 2018
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Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history
- by Randi Storch
- August 4, 2017
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The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?
Other than Hillary Clinton’s adoption of Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college tuition free for most Americans, we haven’t heard much about education.
- by Sherry Linkon
- August 20, 2016