Peterloo and Pedagogy
Editor’s Note: We select a featured essay from each issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History. We’ve never featured a film review,.
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Standing Up: Tales of Struggle A Novel Resource for Labor Leaders
Over five decades of organizing, we’ve seen the power of story to move people. We wanted to write about the workers Imbole Mbue.
- by Ellen Bravo & Larry Miller
- October 10, 2022
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New Book Interviews
The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.
- by Tom Alter
- September 26, 2022
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New Book Interviews
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.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 24, 2022
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New Book Interviews
An Ambitious and Provocative New History
This essay is the second contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Theresa Case
- September 23, 2022
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New Book Interviews
A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site
As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..
- by Kelly Bosworth
- September 8, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Creating a Historic Resource Study and StoryMap for Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell National Historical Park (LOWE) was founded in 1978 by the National Park Service. A sprawling site that includes the historic downtown of.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- September 2, 2022
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Teaching Blog
New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s
“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression. As a widely popular participatory song, it.
- by Nikki Mandell
- August 17, 2022
Film & Video
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Working 9 to 5
Ever wonder if it’s safe to bring an artichoke to lunch when you’re trying to convince someone to speak up on the job?.
- by Ellen Cassedy
- August 2, 2022