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Victoria Grieve on Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women of the Federated Press

Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women at the Federated Press explores the cooperative labor-focused news service, Federated Press (FP). The FP reached hundreds of.

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Colleen O’Neill on her new book, Waging Sovereignty

In Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, historian Colleen O’Neill examines the rise of wage work as a.

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David Roediger on his new book, An Ordinary White

In his new memoir, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education (2025), David Roediger provides a moving account of his lifetime of scholarship and.

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Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance

Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards (Cornell University Press) examines the rise of a sustained social movement.

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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.

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Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

 Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys.

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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,.

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Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite

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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James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America

James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about.

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Max Fraser on his new book, Hillbilly Highway

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class explores one of the most significant and under-examined migrations in.

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