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A Seat at the Table – Update Part 3

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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A Seat at the Table New Voices from the Struggle to Organize Young, Service-Sector Workers in the US

This is the first in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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COVID-19 and Authoritarian Populism

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.

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Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country

Steven Beda’s essay, “‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man’: Environmental Conflict and Working-Class Politics in Oregon Timber Country, 1970–Present,” in issue.

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Film & Video LaborOnline

Peterloo and Pedagogy

Editor’s Note: We select a featured essay from each issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History. We’ve never featured a film review,.

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The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914

The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Janet K. Weaver’s essay.

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Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent

Kaisha Esty’s marvelous essay “‘I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me’: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Jason Resnikoff’s essay on QWERTY & the Neuter Keyboard- free access until March 31

Jason Resnikoff’s essay The Paradox of Automation: QWERTY and the Neuter Keyboard is now available with free access until March 31, 2022 of .

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Read Five Top Labor Articles — free til January 31, 2022

Duke University Press, the publisher of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, has just released the 5 most read articles from Volume 18.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1

This recent issue of the Labor: Studies in Working Class History features a terrific essay “Did Emmett Till Die in Vain? Organized Labor.

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