posts tagged asrace and class

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.

The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century

by Jenny Carson on May 4, 2022

Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their fight for a democratic union met resistance from a notable CIO union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. It is a window into her longer treatment in A Matter of Moral Justice, published by University of Illinois Press –editor

Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent

by Rosemary Feurer on March 11, 2022

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.

Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

by Lisa Philips on September 29, 2021

Lisa Phillips spoke to Jenny Carson about her new book, A Matter of Moral Justice, on Black women laundry workers in New York. It was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.

Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1

by Rosemary Feurer on May 24, 2021

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.

Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club

by Chad Pearson on December 21, 2020

Jonathan Daniel Wells’ The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War exposes the role of Wall Street, powerful judges, politicians, lawyers and police officers in kidnapping African-Americans and sending them South to enslavement, showing the way that New York’s powerful kept slavery and the slave trade alive.

Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy

by Jesse Chanin on December 14, 2020

Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation.

The United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defy assumptions about anti-union right-to-work Louisiana. As a small, mostly segregated Black local, in 1966, they held the first teachers strike in the South.

Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth

by Mark Lause on November 27, 2020

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 basic insights and arguments about the nature of race in America. It did its most impressive work in presenting the wide spectrum of diverse African American responses to slavery and, in the process, offering a better sense of their humanity.

Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics

by Michael Goldfield on July 17, 2020

This is our final 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: 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.

1 2 3 4 Next »

LAWCHA

The Labor and Working-Class History Association