The Worlds of American Communism: An Interview with Author Joshua Morris
Joshua Morris has published The Many Worlds of American Communism in September. Morris completed his Ph.D. at Wayne State University and teaches at.
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New Book Interviews
The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.
- by Tom Alter
- September 26, 2022
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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their.
- by Jenny Carson
- May 4, 2022
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Jake Altman on Socialism before Sanders
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. In this edition, Stephanie Riley interviewed Jake Altman.
- by Stephanie Riley
- December 5, 2019
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New Book Interviews
Lane Windham on her new book: Knocking on Labor’s Door
Lane Windham’s new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, was officially.
- by Jacob Remes
- September 5, 2017
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White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes
During election years white people who do not have bachelor’s degrees (the increasingly common definition of “the working class”) become both a somewhat.
- by Jack Metzgar
- September 25, 2016
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Best Read for Labor Day 2016: Tamara Draut’s Sleeping Giant
Like me, are you bone weary of hearing non-stop news coverage of Donald Trump? Do you roll your eyes when the pundits “discover”.
- by Lane Windham
- August 31, 2016
Labor History
Irish Rebels at Home and Abroad
We have had quite a year, in 2016, of Irish history, certainly the biggest for decades. The centenary of the 1916 uprising offered.
- by Paul Buhle
- August 27, 2016
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Department of Labor’s List of Books that Shaped Work in America ignores critical books
In honor of its centennial the Department of Labor began posting a list of “Books that Shaped Work in America”. What does it.
- by Mark Lause
- March 12, 2014