David Roediger on his new book, An Ordinary White
In his new memoir, An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education (2025), David Roediger provides a moving account of his lifetime of scholarship and
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Tom Alter: Campaign for Reinstatement after Firing
LAWCHA has issued a powerful statement of support for LAWCHA member and historian Tom Alter, who was recently fired without due process from
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David Montgomery’s Diverse and Transnational Working Class: a Model of Continuing Relevance?
This is one of a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025.
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Springfield, Illinois Marker Honors Black Union Activist
On June 17, 2025, an official Illinois historical marker that highlights the experiences and activism of Black coal miners in Illinois was dedicated
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Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys
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Alan Singer on his new book, Class-Conscious Coal Miners
Alan Singer’s new book excavates the Central Pennsylvania miners as they struggled at multiple levels: against mechanization, for democracy in their union, the
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Labor History Bibliography, 2024
This is my 12th year of creating the annual bibliography, which used to be in the LAWCHA annual newsletter. If you think a
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Historical Perspective
The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is out, and as usual, we are able to release one of the
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Listen to Salem Elzway to Understand How Elites Have Used Automation
In a recent issue of Labor, Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff published an article that gives all workers insights into this ongoing deployment
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James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about