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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Bryan D. Palmer on his new book, James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism

Chad Pearson recently interviewed Bryan Palmer about this new book,  James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938

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A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship

This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club

Jonathan Daniel Wells’ The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War exposes the role of Wall

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Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

Chad Pearson offers comments on employer violence in understanding workplace injury as part of a roundtable on Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents,

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LAWCHA

The Great Cowboy Strike: An interview with Mark Lause

Chad Pearson interviews Mark Lause on his new book, The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West, which

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Labor History

The Right to Work, the Right to Carry, and the Right to Shoot

Cleveland's long history of guns is connected to anti-worker repression.

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Power-Hungry Counter-Revolutionaries or Bourgeois Radicals?

Readers of the LAWCHA blog will be interested in a few of the different leftist interpretations of the meaning of American independence and

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Labor History

Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists

How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his

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LAWCHA

Let’s Draw Horns on Roosevelt’s Head by Chad Pearson

A number of the historians in the audience at the 2014 Organization of American Historian’s session on the state of political history in

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LAWCHA

Doing the Employer’s Dirty Work?: Thinking about the History of Anti-Unionism from “Below” after the UAW’s Defeat in Chattanooga

Historians should think carefully as they ponder the meaning of the UAW defeat in Chattanooga. Some analysts write as though a full-fledged co-determination

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