Scabs, Class Traitors, and Seminars: A Year at Harvard
During the 2025-2026 academic school year, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center hosted a fantastic, year-long seminar series focused on labor history: “Labor and Political Economy
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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
Chad Pearson’s review follows a series of recent posts from Labor Online that reflect on and feature the work of contributors to Contingent
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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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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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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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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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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