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- by Andrea Ringer, Brian Kwoba
- August 30, 2025
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 organizes the book around Harrison’s intellectual contributions to touchstone moments in the early twentieth century—including World War I, Marcus Garvey’s movement, and free love politics.

Labor: Studies in Working Class History
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1, 2023
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Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power
- by Janine Giordano Drake, Nick Juravich
- August 21, 2025
Abundance: a Labor History Critique
- by Luke Masa
- August 15, 2025
Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance
- by Patrick Dixon
- August 8, 2025
Why Everything Is So Unaffordable
- by Alan Singer
- August 1, 2025
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Springfield, Illinois Marker Honors Black Union Activist
- June 26, 2025
Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker
- June 19, 2025
Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals
- January 3, 2025
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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s
- April 15, 2025
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective
- September 18, 2024
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LaborOnline features perspectives on a host of issues, contemporary and historical.
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To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu). For the public history series, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, contact Alex Lichtenstein, lichtens@indiana.edu
Editorial Team for Labor Online
- John Enyeart, Bucknell University
- Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
- Chad Pearson, University of Texas
- Ian Rocksborough-Smith, University of Fraser Valley
- Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
- Laisions: Alexander Dunphy, Emily LaBarbera Twarog, Michael Hillard
Film & video
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- January 30, 2025
Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
- January 12, 2023
Rails, Jails and Trolleys
- November 28, 2022
Authors new book interviews
Brian Kwoba on his new book, Hubert Harrison
- August 30, 2025
Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power
- August 21, 2025
Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance
- August 8, 2025
Book symposia
Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
- August 14, 2020
Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
- July 17, 2020
In Memoriam
Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024
- July 5, 2024
Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)
- May 14, 2023
Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
- April 24, 2023
Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
- November 19, 2022
LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical. To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu).
For information about our prize-winning journal or to contribute, visit LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.