posts tagged as#free essay
COVID-19 and Authoritarian Populism
Aditya Sarkar’s essay, “Pandemics, Labor Relations, and Political Regimes: The Bubonic Plague and COVID-19 Crises in India,” in issue 20:2 (May 2023) of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is available freely until September 30, 2023, courtesy of Duke University Press.
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Rethinking Working-Class Identity in Northwest Timber Country
Steven Beda’s essay, “‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon for the Working Man’: Environmental Conflict and Working-Class Politics in Oregon Timber Country, 1970–Present,” in issue 19:1 (March 2023) of Labor: Studies in Working Class History is available for free until July 30, 2023, courtesy of Duke University Press.
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Peterloo and Pedagogy
Editor’s Note: We select a featured essay from each issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History. We’ve never featured a film review, and so it’s great to make available Richard Wells’ essay, Class Politics and the Filmmakers’s Craft in Mike Leigh’s Peterloo from issue 19:3 on the film Peterloo, released in 2018.
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The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914
The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Janet K. Weaver’s essay from behind the paywall for three months, thanks to Duke University Press. It’s an essay on a young Iowa woman who tried to make unions a force for change more than a hundred years ago.
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Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent
Kaisha Esty’s marvelous essay “‘I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me’: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over Labor and Sexual Consent in Union-Occupied Territory” is available for free download from Duke University Press until May 31.
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Jason Resnikoff’s essay on QWERTY & the Neuter Keyboard- free access until March 31
Jason Resnikoff’s essay The Paradox of Automation: QWERTY and the Neuter Keyboard is now available with free access until March 31, 2022 of Labor: Working Class Studies of the Americas. The essay gives new perspectives on how typing, considered one of the “office wife” service duties, became “neutered,” in the late twentieth century.
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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 from behind the paywall. They are free until January 31, 2022.
Please share these freely available articles with your colleagues and students.
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Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1
This recent issue of the Labor: Studies in Working Class History features a terrific essay “Did Emmett Till Die in Vain? Organized Labor Says No!”: The United Packinghouse Workers and Civil Rights Unionism in the Mid-1950s by Matthew Nichter that brings new light to the Emmett Till story.
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels Essay on Italian Immigrant Gatekeeping – Free Access
News that hopeful immigrants continue to be transported across the border under the Biden administration at levels last reached in 2018 makes it clear that the early weeks of the new administration will not bring a policy sea-change. And it makes the essays in the new issue of Labor 18:1, which discuss elements of U.S.
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