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LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical, as well as “instant” dialogue and debate among readers and authors about the contents of the journal. Looking for the journal? Visit Labor at Duke University Press. Contact Rosemary Feurer ([email protected]) to propose ideas or stories.

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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors

by Nick Juravich

A People’s History of Life and Labor in the San Gabriel Valley: An Interview with authors and editors of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers, 2020). We’re here to talk about East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, a collection of 31 essays edited by Romeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft. The book was released in late February in Rutgers University Press’s Latinidad series (edited by longtime LAWCHA stalwart and former board member Matt Garcia), and like all books released in 2020, its editors and authors are promoting it remotely. Read more →

September 17^th, 2020

September 3^rd, 2020

Ryan Pettengill on his new book, Communists and Community . . .in Detroit

by Randi Storch

August 31^st, 2020

Alexandra Finley on Her New Book, An Intimate Economy

by Jacob Remes

August 14^th, 2020

Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished

by Nate Holdren

August 13^th, 2020

Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

by Chad Pearson

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Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

by William Jones on April 23^rd,2020

New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers.

When the Home Is a Workplace

by Eileen Boris on April 17^th,2020

In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way. Read more →

LAWCHA at OAH

by Jacob Remes on March 18^th,2019

LAWCHA is pleased to have solicited and endorsed several panels at the 2019 OAH Conference in Philadelphia. We hope to see you there. Read more →

Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

by Leon Fink on February 6^th,2019

It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle lines in the Civil War a “general strike.” Read more →

Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?

by Jack Metzgar on November 30^th,2018

Two days after the mid-term elections, The Washington Post published an analysis under the headline “These wealthy neighborhoods delivered Democrats the House majority.” Read more →

The AHA and the Chicago Hotel Strike

by Julie Greene on October 20^th,2018

On Sept. 7 UNITE HERE began a strike against 25 hotels in Chicago. The demands focused on year round health insurance and other benefits. Six… Read more →

Labor Song of the Month: “Harry Bridges”

by Peter Cole on September 20^th,2018

Nowadays, the name Harry Bridges elicits no response from the average American. Some San Francisco Bay Area residents might connect his name to the large plaza outside the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero running alongside the bay. Read more →

What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)

by Daniel Graff on September 20^th,2018

Increasing inequality is a pressing problem requiring serious research and vigorous debate as we strive for policies that improve people’s opportunities and outcomes. One direct way to tackle this challenge is to confront the problem of pay, especially in the United States, where our public culture has long correlated hard work with personal worth and our public policies have wedded social benefits to employment via tax credits, health care insurance and pensions. Read more →

The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy

by Jonathan Kissam on September 5^th,2018

Jonathan Kissam, historian and Communications Director for United Electrical Workers Union, digs into the past for some ideas for the future, in a post originally… Read more →

Martin J. Bennett, “50 Years Ago: King, Memphis, and the Poor People’s Campaign,” Beyond Chron, May 31, 2018

by Ryan Poe on June 25^th,2018

Most Americans know that a white racist assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4,1968 – fifty years ago. But few understand the historical context and why King was in Memphis. Read more →

The Irony of Essential Work COVID-19’s Impact on Campus Workers

Walker Smith , July 31^st,2020

“Everything you do as a grad student is a gamble” The graduate student employee COVID-19 experience

Teri Del Rosso , July 30^th,2020

“Who can plan their life just one year in advance?” Non Tenure-Track Labor in Times of Crisis

Edward Brudney , July 29^th,2020

Essential or Expendable? Working in Higher Education during COVID-19

Andrea Ringer, Edward Brudney , and Teri Del Rosso , July 28^th,2020

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship

Jacob Remes , July 23^rd,2020

Lecturer Organizing and COVID-19

Trevor Griffey , July 21^st,2020

Goldfield Roundtable The Author Replies to Critics

Michael Goldfield , July 17^th,2020

Goldfield Roundtable Organizing Insights on the South

Rosemary Feurer , July 16^th,2020

Goldfield Roundtable Laws, Votes and Working-Class Politics in the Jim Crow South

William Jones , July 15^th,2020

Goldfield Roundtable Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?

Ahmed White , July 14^th,2020

Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key Civil Rights & Democracy

James Pope , July 13^th,2020

Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere in print and on screen

Patrick Dixon , July 9^th,2020

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Want to contribute to LaborOnline? All LAWCHA members are invited to contribute. Graduate students, non-academics, and teachers are especially invited to share their stories, their ideas, interesting links, or anything else you think LAWCHA members and the general public might find interesting. To submit something, email Rosemary Feurer, LaborOnline editor.

A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932

James Gregory, July 1^st,2020

Philip Rubio on his New Book, Undelivered

Jacob Remes, June 29^th,2020

Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity

Hannah Forsyth, June 26^th,2020

The Coronavirus Message America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave

Martin Bennett, June 22^nd,2020

Black Women Demand Reparations and the Right to Live Free

Sheri Davis-Faulkner, June 18^th,2020

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) women leaders have for centuries been stitching our community stories into the US tapestry to correct the white-washed narrative and reveal this nation’s bloody history. Black women have labored to produce and reproduce generations of possibility and freedom dreams, while countering the nonsensical… Read more →

Lachlan MacKinnon on his new book, Closing Sysco

Jacob Remes, June 11^th,2020

George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism

Ken Estey, June 10^th,2020

LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History

LAWCHA Executive Committee , June 5^th,2020

The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality, and we demand justice. We stand in solidarity with all who are in the streets to protest racist policing and with the thousands who have been attacked… Read more →

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