posts tagged asbook roundtable

Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation

by Alex Lichtenstein on June 17, 2022

In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World. Rather than review the book, Labor OnLine decided instead to convene a conversation with four activist-scholars who could shed light on Noel’s experience at US Steel, and offer their own critique of his account of working life there.

Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished

by Nate Holdren on August 14, 2020

Today we wrap up our roundtable with Nate Holdren’s response to commenters on his new book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published by Cambridge University Press. We started with an introduction by Eileen Boris and posted comments from Vilja Hulden and Trish Kahle and Chad Pearson.

Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

by Chad Pearson on August 13, 2020

Chad Pearson offers comments on employer violence in understanding workplace injury as part of a roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published by Cambridge University Press. Holdren delves into the history of the emergence of workers’ compensation law in the United States.

Injustice, Aggregated: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

by Trish Kahle on August 12, 2020

Today Trish Kahle weighs in on our roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published from Cambridge University Press. Holdren delves into the history of the emergence of workers’ compensation law in the United States.

Workers’ Worth: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

by Vilja Hulden on August 11, 2020

Today we continue our roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published from Cambridge University Press. Holdren delves into the history of the emergence of workers’ compensation law in the United States.

A Roundtable Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished : Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era

by Eileen Boris on August 10, 2020

Today we begin a week-long roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published from Cambridge University Press. Holdren delves into the history of the emergence of workers’ compensation law in the United States.

Goldfield Roundtable: Organizing Insights on the South

by Rosemary Feurer on July 16, 2020

This is our fourth entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Goldfield examines the failure to organize the South in the period of the workers insurgency of the 1930s and 1940s.

Goldfield Roundtable: Laws, Votes and Working-Class Politics in the Jim Crow South

by William Jones on July 15, 2020

This is our third entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Goldfield examines the failure to organize the South in the period of the workers insurgency of the 1930s and 1940s.

Goldfield Roundtable: Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?

by Ahmed White on July 14, 2020

This is our second entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Goldfield examines the failure to organize the South in the period of the workers insurgency of the 1930s and 1940s.

Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Civil Rights & Democracy

by James Pope on July 13, 2020

Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Goldfield examines the failure to organize the South in the period of the workers insurgency of the 1930s and 1940s.

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