women and labor
LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Ruby Oram on her new book, Home Work

Ruby Oram’s Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines how working.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Victoria Grieve on Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women of the Federated Press

Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women at the Federated Press explores the cooperative labor-focused news service, Federated Press (FP). The FP reached hundreds of.

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Black Anti-Fascist Forum LaborOnline

Bringing the truth of a world that is dawning: A Black Cuban educator in the Spanish Civil War

This blog is the third in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”Black Cuban educator, socialist, feminist, and antifascist Rosa Pastora Leclerc.

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Issues of Labor LaborOnline LAWCHA

Sex and the Power of Publicity: OCAW in the 1970s

Sarah Milov’s essay,“Damned Women: Fetal Protection as Employer Offensive at American Cyanamid,” in the  December 2025 issue of  Labor: Studies in Working Class.

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Film & Video LaborOnline

Working 9 to 5

Ever wonder if it’s safe to bring an artichoke to lunch when you’re trying to convince someone to speak up on the job?.

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Labor History LaborOnline

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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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

A Roundtable: Eileen Boris’ Making the Woman Worker

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we are pleased to host a roundtable discussion on Eileen Boris’ new book, Making the Woman Worker:.

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