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
The Moving Past, a website and project that features century-old archival films on a wide array of Canadian subjects, has a few new films that will be of interest to those interested in labor history. I wrote about this project
Teaching Labor’s Story is excited to add a labor drama to LAWCHA’s labor history sourcebook: START! A Play in Seven Scenes. Written and produced by two garment worker-students at Brookwood Labor College in 1927, Start! tells the story of Sonia, a garment worker
Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009 by Marc Kagan (Boston MA: Brill, 2025). Available for free download at https://brill.com/display/title/73488.Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall
No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine (2025).Jeff Schuhrke’s No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine (2025) deftly cuts through deceitful arguments in the context of the ongoing Gaza genocide that the
Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (2025)In his new book, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, David McNally intervenes in ongoing debates over the relation between slavery and capital to offer a systematic Marxist analysis. Drawing on the scholarship
Labor historian John Laslett died on March 23rd, 2025 at the age of 91. He will be remembered for his scholarly engagement with the history of radicalism, immigration, and Los Angeles community and labor history. He was part of a