Southern labor history
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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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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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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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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Goldfield Roundtable: Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?

This is our second 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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Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Civil Rights & Democracy

Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s..

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The Alabama Communists in Days of Yore

The rewriting of radical history has occupied two generations of US historians, in one way or another, and among some especially fine efforts.

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