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The Labor Movement Made Me a Labor Historian

I became a labor historian in the spring of 2014. This was unexpected. I was already in the third year of a doctoral program in the history department at Columbia...

Janine Giordano Drake on her new book, The Gospel of Church

The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement, just published by Janine Giordano Drake (Oxford University Press, 2023), chronicles the battles between Christian...

A Seat at the Table New Voices from the Struggle to Organize Young, Service-Sector Workers in the US

Get PDF of this article This is the first in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History,...

A Seat at the Table – Update Part 2

THIS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES THAT UPDATES AND EXTENDS JOHN MCKERLEY’S ESSAY IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING CLASS HISTORY, WHICH IS FREELY ...

The 2022-23 Upsurge of Union Organizing and Strikes in Higher Education

As this report documents, the recent uptick in union organizing has not been large enough to reverse the long-term decline in union density, yet the labor movement revitalization of the...

William D. Riddell On the Waves of Empire U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed William D. Riddell about his new book On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023. ...