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John Laslett: A Scholarly Remembrance

Labor historian John Laslett died on March 23rd, 2025 at the age of 91. He will be remembered for his scholarly engagement with.

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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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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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

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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Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherny’s book on Harry Bridges

Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. ChernyRobert W. Cherny’s new book, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend  (University of Illinois.

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Maurice Isserman on His New Book, Reds

Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice IssermanRandi Storch: Your engaging and well-written history of American Communism from 1919 to the early.

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LaborOnline 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.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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The Worlds of American Communism: An Interview with Author Joshua Morris

Joshua Morris has published The Many Worlds of American Communism in September. Morris completed his Ph.D. at Wayne State University and teaches at.

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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico

At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico,.

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