Canada’s Early Industrial Films are Useful to Labor and Social Historians
The Moving Past, a website and project that features century-old archival films on a wide array of Canadian subjects, has a few new.
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Abundance: a Labor History Critique
Abundance (2025) by Ezra Klein and William ThompsonWhat remains to be said about Abundance, the book that’s launched a thousand takes? Authors Ezra.
- by Luke Masa
- August 15, 2025
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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s
by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia HillsPhilip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930sThe cover of the newly designed Labor: Studies in.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- April 15, 2025
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A Seat at the Table New Voices from the Struggle to Organize Young, Service-Sector Workers in the US
This is the first in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.
- by John McKerley
- November 1, 2023
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Sherwood: The Crimes of Thatcher’s War
Is there life after coal, what future for the collier? The scab and the hardliner both, wear the blue scars of the miner.
- by Richard Wells
- January 12, 2023
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Read Five Top Labor Articles — free til January 31, 2022
Duke University Press, the publisher of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, has just released the 5 most read articles from Volume 18.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 21, 2021
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Immigrant Societies and Union Culture
Bob Rossi is a long-time member of the Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, (SNPJ) who has interviewed and corresponded with dozens of SNPJ members.
- by Bob Rossi
- December 2, 2021
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Syrian Families in the Colorado Coal Mining Communities
Since the 1980s, Bob Rossi has been working on a social history of Colorado coal mining communities and an account of the 1927–28.
- by Bob Rossi
- November 24, 2021
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Betrayal: A Critical View of the Government Takeover of the Teamsters
Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union, a recent (2019) documentary by George Bogdanich, asks critical questions about the decades long.
- by Liesl Orenic
- November 4, 2021
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird uses the events around John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to weave a fictional tale incorporating some.
- by Mark Lause
- November 27, 2020