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Nick Juravich is an Associate Professor of History and Labor Studies and the Associate Director of the <a title="https://www.umb.edu/lrc/" href="https://www.umb.edu/lrc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Labor Resource Center</a> at UMass Boston. He is the author of <a title="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088230" href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088230" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education </a>(Illinois Press, 2024) and the co-editor, with Steve Striffler, of <i><a title="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088643" href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088643" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">The Pandemic and the Working Class: How U.S. Labor Navigated COVID-19</a> </i>(Illinois Press, 2025).<i> </i>He is a member of the Faculty Staff Union, a local of the <a title="https://massteacher.org/" href="https://massteacher.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">Massachusetts Teachers Association</a>.
LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Nick Juravich on his new book, Para Power

In Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education, Nick Juravich shows that the job category we know today as “paraprofessionals” in education was initially

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Steve Striffler and Nick Juravich on The Pandemic and the Working Class

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with authors and editors of books in labor and working-class history, Jacob Remes spoke to

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors

A People’s History of Life and Labor in the San Gabriel Valley: An Interview with authors and editors of East of East: The

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Labor History Teaching Blog

New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970

Nick Juravich’s new TLS guide is an op-ed written by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin on the signing of the first union contract

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Teaching Blog

Paraprofessional Educators and Labor-Community Coalitions, Past and Present

Public education today is at the center of an unrelenting assault on the American labor movement. This is no accident; by some measures,

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