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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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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Labor History LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Goldfield Roundtable: Organizing Insights on the South

This is our fourth entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Goldfield Roundtable: Laws, Votes and Working-Class Politics in the Jim Crow South

This is our third entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in.

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