LaborOnline
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Featured Blogs
- by Kathy M. Newman, Jessie Ramey
- October 31, 2026
Kathy M. Newman serves as the Arts and Media editor for Labor. She recently interviewed Jessie B. Ramey, her friend and fellow LAWCHA member, about her efforts to chronicle the life and activism of Kipp Dawson. Dawson, now 81, has been at the forefront of multiple social justice movements over.
Labor: Studies in Working Class History
The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Volume 20, Issue 3, September 1, 2023
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Recent
“There’s No ‘We’ Working Twelves”: Norma Rae Comes to Des Moines
- by Nate Holdren
- September 12, 2026
Scabs, Class Traitors, and Seminars: A Year at Harvard
- by Chad Pearson
- September 8, 2026
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Public History on the San Francisco Waterfront
- March 30, 2026
Maryland250 Labor History Project
- February 16, 2026
“Labor & Art” in Homestead, Pennsylvania
- November 4, 2025
Robert Cherny on the Coit Tower Murals
- October 5, 2025
Labor: Studies in Working Class History
Rethinking Employee Retraining: Lessons from the 1980s
- August 20, 2026
The Work of Forgetting
- June 13, 2026
Sex and the Power of Publicity: OCAW in the 1970s
- January 23, 2026
Going Public: LABOR’s Newest Section
- January 5, 2026
About
LaborOnline features perspectives on a host of issues, contemporary and historical.
Contribute content
To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu). For the public history series, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, contact Alex Lichtenstein, lichtens@indiana.edu
Editorial Team for Labor Online
- John Enyeart, Bucknell University
- Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
- Chad Pearson, University of Texas
- Ian Rocksborough-Smith, University of Fraser Valley
- Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
- Laisions: Alexander Dunphy, Emily LaBarbera Twarog, Michael Hillard
Film & video
“There’s No ‘We’ Working Twelves”: Norma Rae Comes to Des Moines
- September 12, 2026
The Moving Past: Seeing Labor History in Archival Films
- January 30, 2025
Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
- January 12, 2023
Authors new book interviews
Mary Anne Trasciatti on her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- October 10, 2026
Ruby Oram on her new book, Home Work
- September 1, 2026
Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland
- August 4, 2026
Book symposia
Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
- August 14, 2020
Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics
- July 17, 2020
In Memoriam
John Laslett: A Scholarly Remembrance
- December 12, 2025
Remembering Kent Wong, champion of worker rights and education
- October 14, 2025
Nancy Felice Gabin, 1954-2024
- July 5, 2024
Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)
- May 14, 2023
LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical. To contribute stories, propose topics, or reach the editor for other reasons, contact Rosemary Feurer (rfeurer@niu.edu).
For information about our prize-winning journal or to contribute, visit LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.
