Liesl Orenic
Film & Video LaborOnline

Betrayal: A Review and an Exchange

This post, originally published on November 4, has been updated with an exchange between the filmmaker and the reviewer. -Editor Betrayal: When the

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Film & Video LaborOnline

Betrayal: A Critical View of the Government Takeover of the Teamsters

Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union, a recent (2019) documentary by George Bogdanich, asks critical questions about the decades long

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Call for Proposals

The Past is Always Present: PCB-AHA Annual Meeting

The 2020 PCB-AHA conference encourages participants to think about and discuss how historical knowledge and interpretation—of the distant as well as immediate past—advances

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Call for Proposals

The Newberry Seminar in Labor History: CFP Deadline June 1, 2018

The Newberry Seminar in Labor Historyprovides a forum for works in progress that explore the history of working class people, communities, and culture;

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People

Les Orear, Activist and Founder of Illinois Labor History Society (1911-2014)

Leslie Fray Orear, a union organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers of America, editor of its newspaper and co-founder and president emeritus of

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