Christopher Cantwell’s The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism offers an intimate look at Frank Wood, the lay leader in the adult Sunday School movement in Chicago from the late nineteenth through the
In Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, historian Colleen O’Neill examines the rise of wage work as a critical arena of conflict over Native American sovereignty and assimilation. Using federal archives as well as Native
Nate Holdren’s essay “The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States” in Labor: Studies in Working Class History Volume 23:2, is a thoughtful exploration of the way that medical forms organized
The explosion in nativism, authoritarianism, and rightwing populism in recent years has unleashed a roiling debate over whether fascism presents or has ever presented a legitimate threat in the United States and what a uniquely American fascism might look like.
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