Top 5 Labor Essays of 2025 available free until January 26, 2026
Here are the most read essays of this year for the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History. They are available for free.
Issues of Labor
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New Book Interviews
Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power
In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially.
- by Janine Giordano Drake, Nick Juravich
- August 21, 2025
LaborOnline
New Book Interviews
Steve Striffler and Nick Juravich on The Pandemic and the Working Class
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and editors of books in labor and working-class history, Jacob Remes spoke to.
- by Jacob Remes, Nick Juravich, Steve Striffler
- July 29, 2025
Issues of Labor
LaborOnline
LAWCHA
“Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights”: Free Essay available
The essay related to this blog is offered free for the next three months.-Ed.What can be learned from the past struggles to win.
- by Joseph Rathke
- June 2, 2025
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Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor
“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth.
- by Alan Singer
- April 22, 2025
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New Book Interviews
Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power
Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story of.
- by Joseph Rathke
- December 6, 2024
Labor History
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop Saturday, May 22 Session B: 10:45 – 12 PST/12:45-2 CST/1:45-3 EST Are you committed to bringing labor and.
- by Nikki Mandell
- May 17, 2021
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.
- by Jesse Chanin
- December 14, 2020
Labor History
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Teaching Blog
Teaching Committee
Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history
- by Randi Storch
- August 4, 2017
Labor History
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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.
- by Clarence Lang
- June 20, 2017