The new issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 23:2 is out now. Thanks to Duke University Press, an essay by Kim Phillips-Fein, “The Vision of the Municipal Left: Peter V. Cacchione and New York City, 1930s–1940s,” is available
This blog is the third in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”Black Cuban educator, socialist, feminist, and antifascist Rosa Pastora Leclerc traveled across the Atlantic during the Spanish Civil War, abandoning the comforts of home and risking her
Like many Black soldiers conscripted in the segregated armed forces during World War II, Burt Jackson did not need did need battlefield instruction to understand the fascist enemy. He had studied it at home; basic training in the Jim Crow
This essay is the first in a forum on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.” Anna Duensing, one of the forum intiators, writes that this was “a robust and longstanding tradition of Pan-African, anticolonial, anti-imperial, and anti-racist antifascisms that, in the words
For the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Duke University is making free a transcribed conversation provoked by the ongoing crises in higher education from a labor history perspective. “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis
Check out Sean Griffin’s thematic essay for Teaching Labor’s Stry, “Free Labor and Slavery, 1800-1830.” Griffin’s essay is adding to our listing of broad overview essays for specific eras. Griffin’s essay draws on his first book, The Root and the Branch: Working
Professional historians often talk about the need for public education and public history. A year and a half ago, San Franciscans completed one such project: an extensive signage park on the waterfront south of the city’s landmark Ferry Building that
“In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote of Minneapolis in 1934. “No one can be neutral in the face of bullets.” Le Sueur, a Communist writer whose work roamed through fiction, journalism, history, and poetry,
John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays written in 1963 by Afro-Caribbean canal diggers, track shifters, and domestic servants in the Panama Canal Zone.
Last summer, Arizona State University professor Benjamin Y. Fong held up Adolph Germer as a model for today’s unions (“The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer,” Damage Issue 4: Responsibility). Germer served as the “senior field man” for the Congress of