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Questions of Activism and Democracy in Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal
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Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal: Praise and Questions
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Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel
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LAWCHA 2023 Conference Registration: Now Open!
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Finding Oil Women: Images of Oil’s Clerical Workforce Challenge Industry-Cultivated Myth of Rugged Masculinity
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Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
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The Radicalism of Working-Class Americans
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Kim Scipes & Jeff Schuhrke: An Exchange
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Two Decades of LABOR History: An Interview with Leon Fink
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The Most-Read essays of 2022 from Labor: Studies in Working Class History
Upcoming Events
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REGISTRATION OPENClass in Everyday Life :Theory and Praxis
May 18-20, 2023•New Brunswick, New JerseyThe 2023 LAWCHA conference calls attention to spaces of class consciousness and organization in and beyond the workplace. CFP deadline is October 31, 2022.
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Graduate Worker Organizing Workshop
March 16-May 20, 2023•New Brunswick, NJTHE PAST AND FUTURE OF
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GRADUATE WORKER
ORGANIZING
Join us at the 2023 Labor and
Working-Class History
Association Conference for a
series of strategic
conversations on new
directions for graduate worker
organizing on university
campuses.
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Questions of Activism and Democracy in Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal
This is the second entry for a symposium on Steven High’s Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). The book tracks what High calls the “structural violence” and “social ruination” involved in the term deindustrialization. It traces the fate of Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighborhood and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighborhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community. Yesterday, Lizabeth Cohen wrote an appreciation and posed questions. Today Austin McCoy offers reflections aimed at questions of activism and democracy. We follow up with Ted Rutland, and a response by author Steven High. The symposium was organized by Ian Rocksborough-Smith, assistant professor of history at University of the Fraser Valley. Read more →