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Robert Cherny on the Coit Tower Murals

Thanks to Professor Rosemary Feurer and the LaborOnline team for another opportunity to interview Robert W. Cherny, this time about his 2024 book,.

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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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Brian Kwoba on his new book, Hubert Harrison

Brian Kwoba’s Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism offers an intellectual history of Harrison’s race-first labor activism and community organizing. Dr. Kwoba.

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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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Alan Derickson on his new book, Fighting Toxic Ignorance

Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards (Cornell University Press) examines the rise of a sustained social movement.

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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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Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae

The Hollywood Movie Norma Rae defined working class women’s experiences in the wake of neoliberalism. The film launched Sally Field into a cultural.

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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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Jesse Chanin on Building Power, Breaking Power

Jesse Chanin’s book Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008, published earlier this year, tells the remarkable story of.

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