race and class
LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Ruby Oram on her new book, Home Work

Ruby Oram’s Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines how working.

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Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker on their new book, From Popular Front to Cold War

From Popular Front to Cold War (2026).Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front.

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Chris Cantwell on his new book, The Gospel According to Frank Wood

Christopher Cantwell’s The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism offers an intimate look at Frank Wood,.

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Julie Greene on Her New Book, Box 25

John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

David McNally on his new book, Slavery and Capitalism

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (2025)In his new book, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, David McNally intervenes in ongoing debates.

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Labor 2025 Big Book Forum: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery

On October 17, historian Rudi Batzell presented at the Labor 2025 Big Book forum about his new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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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Brian Kwoba on his new book, Hubert Harrison

Brian Kwoba’s Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism offers an intellectual history of Harrison’s race-first labor activism and community organizing. Dr. Kwoba.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Fayetteville Remembers Enslaved Laborer Who Ensured Canada Remained a Safe Refuge

Over the last two years, the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, working with the University of Arkansas Humanities Center, has erected a historical marker,.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker

Ben Fletcher might be the most important African American labor leader you’ve never heard about. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Fletcher led 4,000.

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