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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action

This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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