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
This recorded forum is an exciting follow-up to Justin Jackson’s blog, The Specter of War in Labor History on the Labor: Studies in Working Class History forum on labor history and military history, Up for Debate: The Wages of War:
I am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and working-class history. After teaching at Wesleyan University for many years, I returned to the once-mighty steel city.
Kent Wong, long time Director of the UCLA Labor Center, passed away October 8 at the age of 69. He will be remembered as an inspiring speaker, a fearless advocate for working people, and visionary labor educator who never wavered