Teaching Labor's Story Overview Historical Eras Overview Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) Era 1 Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763) Era 2 Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s) Era 3 Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Era 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about the origins of trade and industrial policy, a topic that has driven anger among working-class, escalated anti-import
This is the fourth 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 available, thanks to Duke University Press. The first post is here. –ed.
Lucas Poy writes about the questions and some of the conclusions of his recently published essay in Labor: Studies of Working Class History on the World Migration Congress of 1926, organized by left-wing labor leaders and social democrats. How have
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 University, studying war and memory in United States political culture.
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 Socialists and Protestant denominational leaders in the struggle to define
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 post-pandemic period is nevertheless an important development.
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Teaching Labor's Story Overview Historical Eras Overview Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) Era 1 Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763) Era 2 Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s) Era 3 Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Era 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Teaching Labor's Story Overview Historical Eras Overview Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) Era 1 Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763) Era 2 Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s) Era 3 Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Era 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)