One night in 1811, British troops broke up a crowd that had been demonstrating for more work and better pay.

On October 17, historian Rudi Batzell presented at the Labor 2025 Big Book forum about his new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global

Members of the Filipino community gathered at Delta College to honor a well-known historian and beloved friend, the late Dr. Dawn Mabalon.

Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.

In 2024, Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown narrowly lost his seat to MAGA Republican Bernie Moreno.

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: three stories of strikes and solidarity in the arts. Casa Bonita performers in Denver walk out for fair pay and safety; journalist Pete Tucker revisits the 19...

On October 25, 2025 Bernie Sanders received the 60th Eugene V. Debs Award. The Debs Foundation (where I serve as board member along with historians,

I am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and working-class history.

In 2025, Indiana passed HEA/HB1001, a budget law requiring public colleges to seek approval for continuing low-enrollment degree programs. In response, universities—including multiple Indiana Universi...

To protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza, dockworkers in Genoa, Italy attempted to convince their fellow workers in ports across Europe and North Africa to

Speak Out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the Fight for Free Speech – YouTube, Thu Nov 6, 2025 - The U.S. is experiencing one of the largest waves of political repression in its history. Academics,...

Over the last two decades, the erstwhile industrial landscape of modern Mumbai has been transformed into glass-fronted corporate offices, luxury residential complexes, and sprawling shopping malls. These dramatic economic and spatial changes, however, have not erased the memories of militant industrial actions, especially the one that took place between 1982 and 1983. Nearly a quarter of a million textile workers staged one of the longest and most significant strikes in the world that lasted for eighteen months. During the strike, mill workers fought in a united and militant manner against the power of capital and the state. The unified industrial action was brutally suppressed, leading to over 91,000 dismissals. Although the strike ended in defeat, the memories of the militant strike continue to motivate the mobilisation of ex-millworkers across post-industrial Mumbai. The identity of the mill workers as ladhavayya kamgar (fighter/warrior worker) and the recollection of memories of the 1982-83 strike is central to the present struggle of ex-millworkers for housing, compensation, and alternative livelihoods after the factories had closed.

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Scott Nelson, University of Georgia, joined us on today’s show.

LAWCHA gives or is affiliated with many awards in labor history, including the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, the Taft Prize, and graduate student travel grants.

Invoking a religious exemption, the Jesuit university said it would no longer recognize unions. Faculty members and labor scholars say that betrays a key principle of Catholic social teaching: workers...