Steve Striffler and Nick Juravich on The Pandemic and the Working Class
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and editors of books in labor and working-class history, Jacob Remes spoke to.
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Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae
The Hollywood Movie Norma Rae defined working class women’s experiences in the wake of neoliberalism. The film launched Sally Field into a cultural.
- by Anne S. Macpherson
- July 12, 2025
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Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression
Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great.
- by Randi Storch
- April 25, 2025
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Harvey Schwartz on John Womack’s Labor Strategy
Labor Power and Strategy (PM Press, 2023)John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for.
- by Harvey Schwartz
- March 12, 2025
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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 5, 2025
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Labor History Bibliography, 2024
This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 31, 2025
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Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherny’s book on Harry Bridges
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. ChernyRobert W. Cherny’s new book, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (University of Illinois.
- by Harvey Schwartz
- August 12, 2024
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David Montgomery’s Legacy in the Field of Working-Class History
Co-authors: James Barrett, Shelton Stromquist David Montgomery was a founder of the modern field of labor history. Even long after his death, the.
- by John Enyeart
- July 17, 2024
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays
In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.
- by Bob Bruno
- May 29, 2024
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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath
Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.
- by Robin Lindley
- April 19, 2024