A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site
As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
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Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest.
- by Alex Lichtenstein
- June 17, 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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Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent
Kaisha Esty’s marvelous essay “‘I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me’: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 11, 2022
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Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
Lisa Phillips spoke to Jenny Carson about her new book, A Matter of Moral Justice, on Black.
- by Lisa Philips
- September 29, 2021
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Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1
This recent issue of the Labor: Studies in Working Class History features a terrific essay “Did Emmett Till Die in Vain? Organized Labor.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 24, 2021
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Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club
Jonathan Daniel Wells’ The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War exposes the role of Wall.
- by Chad Pearson
- December 21, 2020
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Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation. The United Teachers of New Orleans.
- by Jesse Chanin
- December 14, 2020
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird uses the events around John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to weave a fictional tale incorporating some.
- by Mark Lause
- November 27, 2020
Book Roundtable
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Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
This is our final entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in.
- by Michael Goldfield
- July 17, 2020