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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club

Jonathan Daniel Wells’ The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War exposes the role of Wall.

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

Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation. The United Teachers of New Orleans.

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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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Goldfield Roundtable: The Author Replies to Critics

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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Goldfield Roundtable: Organizing Insights on the South

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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

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

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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Goldfield Roundtable: Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?

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.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

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

Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s..

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George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism

George Floyd’s public viewing will be held this afternoon at The Fountain of Praise Church in southwest Houston. A private funeral service will.

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