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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.

Featured Articles

How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants

by Carl Lindskoog

President Trump’s recent visit to Southern California to view prototypes for his much-touted border wall drew protests and new pledges by immigrants and their supporters to fight his anti-immigrant policies. But in February, the Supreme Court handed immigration rights advocates a legal setback in Jennings v. Rodriguez — one that is even more daunting than the concrete wall Trump wants to build. Read more →

June 18^th, 2018

June 15^th, 2018

The Sweat of Their Face: Exhibition Review, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, through September 3, 2018

by Carol Quirke

June 11^th, 2018

A Dirty Deal: Social Dirt and the Adjunct Predicament

by Claire Raymond

June 11^th, 2018

“Oilcan” Ed Sadlowski, 1938-2018: Midwestern Grit

by Rosemary Feurer

Pierre Trudeau speaks in Montreal in 1980.

May 3^rd, 2018

Christo Aivalis on His New Book, The Constant Liberal

by Jacob Remes

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Call for Papers: LAWCHA’s 2019 Conference

by Jacob Remes on May 30^th, 2018

The Labor and Working-Class History Association’s 2019 Call for Papers Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements Duke University, May 30-June 1, 2019… Read more →

Margo Price, “Pay Gap”: Labor Song of the Month

by Daniel Graff on April 16^th, 2018

While Margo Price’s concerns are political through and through, she isn’t hosting any pity parties. Many of her songs rock, countering the sobering lyrics. Read more →

MLK: To the Promised Land

by Michael Honey on March 20^th, 2018

Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice, to be… Read more →

MLK’s ’68 struggle for economic justice still marching on

by Michael Honey on March 20^th, 2018

On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back of an… Read more →

Supporting UK University Lecturers on Strike

by Eric Fure-Slocum on March 12^th, 2018

Steven Parfitt, who spoke at LAWCHA’s Seattle conference, asks LAWCHA members to support the ongoing lecturers’ strike in the UK by contributing to the University and College Union’s “fighting fund.” As Steven notes, “I know that at my branch, and many other branches, this fund is being used particularly to help contingent faculty who want to strike but can’t afford to do so otherwise.” Read more →

Know Your Place A New Generation of Working-Class Voices

Tim Strangleman , March 29^th, 2018

A Tale of Two Futures The Fate of the Dollar General Economy

Daniel Graff , March 19^th, 2018

Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor

Ken Estey , March 13^th, 2018

How Might We Teach the History of Labor Journalism?

Christopher Phelps , March 13^th, 2018

Heather Booth – Changing the World New Film Available on Women’s and Civil Rights Activist

Lane Windham , March 12^th, 2018

Labor and the Long Seventies

Chris Brooks and Lane Windham , March 5^th, 2018

Keisha Blain on Her New Book, Set the World on Fire

Jacob Remes , February 19^th, 2018

Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement

Andrew Tillet-Saks , Andrew Tillet-Saks , and Chad Pearson , February 15^th, 2018

NAFTA’s Long Shadow Where immigration and economic policy meet

Sarah McNamara , February 12^th, 2018

Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue

Rosemary Feurer and Elizabeth Faue , February 8^th, 2018

Uber, the “Metropocalypse,” and Economic Inequality in D.C.

Katie Wells , Declan Cullen , and Kafui Attoh , February 7^th, 2018

Winning Working-Class Voters with State Level Consumer Protection

Marc Dann , February 6^th, 2018

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