race and labor
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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?

New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.

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LaborOnline Teaching Blog

New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

William D. Riddell On the Waves of Empire U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed William D. Riddell about his new book On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924, published by.

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LaborOnline

Michael Pierce Testifies about the Origin of Right to Work

In March 2023 historian Michael Pierce testified on the origins of right to work before the Michigan Senate Labor Committee when it was.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Kevin Kenny on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

Kevin Kenny, a noted scholar of labor history and immigration history, has recently published The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing.

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LaborOnline

The Making and Breaking of a Popular Front: The Case of the National Negro Congress

This is part of a series featuring authors of essays in the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History.  Eric Arnesen discusses the.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Labor and Public Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Few memorial landscapes have changed as much over the past decade than Montgomery, Alabama, the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” At one time, the.

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