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 labor rights? I hope my

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Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History | LAWCHA

In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective

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Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression | LAWCHA

Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great Depression

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Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor | LAWCHA

“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 is

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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s | LAWCHA

by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s "Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the

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Sean Griffin on Root and Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860 | LAWCHA

The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys the robust influence of labor reform and antislavery ideas and movements

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Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go? | LAWCHA

I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among the

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Business and Labor Historians: Friends till the End | LAWCHA

Coauthored by Michael Hillard and Chad Pearson The theme of the 2025 Business History Conference (BHC) was “The Business of Labor.” (Held in Atlanta,

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Harvey Schwartz on John Womack's Labor Strategy | LAWCHA

John Womack Jr.’s Labor Power and Strategy, published by PM Press in 2023, offers a blueprint for how workers can leverage their latent power and expand

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Labor History Bibliography, 2024 | LAWCHA

This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a book published in 2024 should

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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners | LAWCHA

What originally brought you to this project, and what motivated you to bring the project out in book form now? I am a 1960s era anti-war and civil rights

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The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films | LAWCHA

Labor historians in the United States and Canada often rely on familiar sources, union and company records, newspapers and oral interviews, to name a few.

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David Emmons on his New Book, History’s Erratics | LAWCHA

David M. Emmons' provocative new book History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 deploys a

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Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals | LAWCHA

When the Cincinnati city government decided in 1930 to build a large new rail station, they chose German immigrant artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953) to

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Erik Bernardino's "Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant": Free Essay available | LAWCHA

Editor's Note: Erik Bernardino's compelling essay, “Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant, ” published in the December issue of Labor: Studies in

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International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada | LAWCHA

Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of non-citizens in

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Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power | LAWCHA

Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story

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1934 and Now: History Lives! | LAWCHA

Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country. An employers’ organization (the

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An Interview with Historian Robert Cherny, Author of Harry Bridges | LAWCHA

HS: It is an honor to be asked by Professor Rosemary Feurer of LaborOnline to interview Robert W. Cherny about his monumental 2023 biography of Harry

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The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity | LAWCHA

I am a scholar of the eighteenth century, specializing in cultural representations of women and their writing. While drafting my most recent book,

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Labor in the Civil War | LAWCHA

The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my introduction, as

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“A People’s University”: Communist Workers’ Schools, 1923-1956 | LAWCHA

A much-overlooked part of the rise of the Communist Party as the leading Left organization in the mid twentieth century is that it produced a robust

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Amazon's Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective | LAWCHA

The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the essays from behind the paywall. We

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Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherny's book on Harry Bridges | LAWCHA

Robert W. Cherny’s new book, Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend (University of Illinois Press, 2023) is a monumental achievement. More than

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Teaching Labor History With the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey | LAWCHA

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Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation | LAWCHA

In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment of a term,

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Listen to Sam Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation | LAWCHA

In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment of a term,

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Maurice Isserman on His New Book, Reds | LAWCHA

Randi Storch: Your engaging and well-written history of American Communism from 1919 to the early 1990s brings together stories of communists’

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Chad Pearson’s review of Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene’s Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History | LAWCHA

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David Montgomery’s Legacy in the Field of Working-Class History | LAWCHA

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Bringing Labor History Alive: Reenacting the 1936 St. Louis City Hall Occupation | LAWCHA

Every spring, over thirty women union activists are accepted to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, or The Polk School as it is

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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays | LAWCHA

In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist Herbert Applebaum

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UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes | LAWCHA

On Wednesday, May 15, 79% of 48,000 graduate student employees in the sprawling University of California system voted to authorize a strike. Their demands

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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare | LAWCHA

Charisse Burden-Stelly recently published Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. The book offers a radical and

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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism? | LAWCHA

New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery and

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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege--a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath | LAWCHA

Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. In the past four decades, the American

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Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History | LAWCHA

You received your PhD in 1990 from Yale University, where you studied under David Montgomery, one of the founders of the “New Labor History.” What brought

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Reporting Work | LAWCHA

A significant source for “Science as Routine” (available for free for the next three months) in the recent issue of Labor on history and the history of

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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union | LAWCHA

On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United - UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72 to unionize and form

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Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker | LAWCHA

“Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights”: Free Essay available | LAWCHA

Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History | LAWCHA

Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression | LAWCHA

Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor | LAWCHA

Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s | LAWCHA

Sean Griffin on Root and Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860 | LAWCHA

Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go? | LAWCHA

Business and Labor Historians: Friends till the End | LAWCHA

Harvey Schwartz on John Womack's Labor Strategy | LAWCHA

Labor History Bibliography, 2024 | LAWCHA

Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners | LAWCHA

The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films | LAWCHA

David Emmons on his New Book, History’s Erratics | LAWCHA

Public Art in the Queen City: Cincinnati’s Labor Murals | LAWCHA

Erik Bernardino's "Between the Homing Pigeon and the Vagrant": Free Essay available | LAWCHA

International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada | LAWCHA

Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power | LAWCHA

1934 and Now: History Lives! | LAWCHA

An Interview with Historian Robert Cherny, Author of Harry Bridges | LAWCHA

The Twenty-First-Century Afterlives of Enlightenment Maternity | LAWCHA

Labor in the Civil War | LAWCHA

“A People’s University”: Communist Workers’ Schools, 1923-1956 | LAWCHA

Amazon's Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective | LAWCHA

Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherny's book on Harry Bridges | LAWCHA

Teaching Labor History With the Chicago Foreign-Language Press Survey | LAWCHA

Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation | LAWCHA

Listen to Sam Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation | LAWCHA

Maurice Isserman on His New Book, Reds | LAWCHA

Chad Pearson’s review of Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene’s Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History | LAWCHA

David Montgomery’s Legacy in the Field of Working-Class History | LAWCHA

Bringing Labor History Alive: Reenacting the 1936 St. Louis City Hall Occupation | LAWCHA

What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays | LAWCHA

UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes | LAWCHA

Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare | LAWCHA

Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism? | LAWCHA

Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege--a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath | LAWCHA

Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History | LAWCHA

Reporting Work | LAWCHA

What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union | LAWCHA

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