posts categorized asLabor History

For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico

by on July 21, 2022

At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico, Reynalda González Parra had co-founded one of the most radical labor collectives in the entire world.  It was 1915 and amid one of the bloodiest revolutions of the twentieth century González Parra, alongside Mexican, Spanish, and other activists, founded the Tampico local of the Casa del Obrero Mundial (COM)—the House of the Global Worker.

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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop

by on May 17, 2021

Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop

Saturday, May 22

Session B: 10:45 – 12 PST/12:45-2 CST/1:45-3 EST

Are you committed to bringing labor and working class history into the mainstream ?

Are you looking for a worthwhile peer-reviewed publication opportunity?

Are you interested in building connections with labor scholars?

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