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A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site

As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Creating a Historic Resource Study and StoryMap for Lowell National Historical Park

Lowell National Historical Park (LOWE) was founded in 1978 by the National Park Service. A sprawling site that includes the historic downtown of.

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New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s

“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression.  As a widely popular participatory song, it.

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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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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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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation

In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest.

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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson

Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace.

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The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914

The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Janet K. Weaver’s essay.

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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century

Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their.

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“We Just Want A Democratic Workplace”: Can the NLRB Protect Starbucks’ Pro-Union Workers?

John Logan updates us on the spunky Starbucks workers campaign against the Goliath of union avoidance, asks what the National Labor Relations Board.

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