Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine
On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of.
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
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New Book Interviews
Janine Giordano Drake on her new book, The Gospel of Church
The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement, just published by Janine Giordano Drake (Oxford University.
- by Randi Storch
- November 3, 2023
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Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel
Ahmed White recently published Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. It takes a closer look at.
- by Randi Storch
- March 15, 2023
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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.
- by Janet Weaver
- May 31, 2022
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100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan
This post was originally published in 2013. Today, Christmas Eve, 2013, marks the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan,.
- by Aaron Goings
- December 23, 2020
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New Book Interviews
Aaron Goings on his new book: The Port of Missing Men
In his fascinating new book, Aaron Goings interrogates the legend of Billy Gohl (1873-1927), a union official accused of dozens of murders. He.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 14, 2020
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Who should “rule at home”?
Early in September, Polk County Iowa District Judge Jeffrey Farrell ruled that state officials had the right to overrule local school boards in.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- September 24, 2020
Book Roundtable
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Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
Today we wrap up our roundtable with Nate Holdren’s response to commenters on his new book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law.
- by Nate Holdren
- August 14, 2020
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Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
Chad Pearson offers comments on employer violence in understanding workplace injury as part of a roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents,.
- by Chad Pearson
- August 13, 2020
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Injustice, Aggregated: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
Today Trish Kahle weighs in on our roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just.
- by Trish Kahle
- August 12, 2020