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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 5d

Don't forget to mark your calendars for LABOR's Big Book Forum (Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET, via Zoom) featuring @rbatzell.bsky.social's new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery. The event is free and open to the public. Register today! go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025

flier for LABOR's Big Book Forum featuring pics of the participants and the registration link: go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 14d

The study of Black labor destroys the mythology of global, industrial capitalism. It reveals the fraud at the heart of modern economics. #ASALH2025

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 14d

Kelly Goodman talks about the history of teacher strikes, funding challenges in public education and the impact of recent policy changes on school budgets. Listen to the interview below.
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Kelly Goodman on Teacher Strikes: Lessons from Detroit to Chicago

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kelly Goodman of Harvard University joined us on today’s show.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 14d

Labor4Sustainability
"Earth is a Hot Shop"
Young Worker Listening Proj Report
"many young worker leaders attempting to organize
at intersection of labor, climate, and social justice"
@lawcha.bsky.social
@laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
link here: www.labor4sustainability.org/files/YWREPO...

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 14d

The event is free and open to the public. See the flyer for more information and a QR code, or register for the event at go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025. Please share widely!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: LABOR’s 2025 Big Book Talk. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 14d

Commentaries will be provided by Lara Vapnek (St. John’s University), Kevin Kenny (@kevinkenny.bsky.social) (New York University), Richard Price (University of Maryland), and Naomi Williams (Rutgers). Julie Greene (@greeneland.bsky.social) will moderate.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 14d

We chose Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery because it is an ambitious work that engages with several of the most important questions in the history of labor and race through its compelling analysis of slavery and the labor movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century US & Great Britain.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 14d

We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)

A flier that says: 2025 Labor Big Book Forum; Friday Oct 17 2-4 ET ; Register Today! with the link: go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 ; and has a picture of the book "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" which features four sets of raised fists, alternating between red and blue.

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

Calling all recent Labor PhDs! Submissions are open for the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, honoring the best dissertation in U.S. labor & working-class history. Includes $1,000, travel support, & a publishing contract. Apply today!

University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!

Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 19

Tom Alter was a guest on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. He discussed Populism in the 1880s and the present with Flash Ferenc. Check out the interview below.
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Populism Then and Now: Lessons from 1880s Labor Movements

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Thomas Edgar Alter of Texas State University joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 18

Stacey Smith joined America's Work Force Union Podcast today to discuss the Anti-Peonage Act of 1867. Check out the interview at the link below:
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From Post-Civil War Peonage to Modern Student Loans

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Stacey Smith of Oregon State University joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 15

James Benton joined Flash Ferenc on America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the impact of international trade upon the working class. Check out the interview below.
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Labor 131: International trade's impact on the working class

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. James Benton of Georgetown University's Kalmonovitz Initiative joined us on today’s show.

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Luke @elmas12.bsky.social · Aug 15

@lawcha.bsky.social Kindly published my review of Abundance on their LaborOnline blog

Abundance: a Labor History Critique | LAWCHA

What remains to be said about Abundance, the book that’s launched a thousand takes? Authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson cast their book as a novel

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 13

@jessiew.bsky.social shares her insights on the 1929 Elizabethton textile strike on the latest episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. Check out the interview via the link below!

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Jessie Wilkerson on the 1929 Elizabethton Textile Strike

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Jessie Wilkerson of the University of Tennessee joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 11

Listen to Lauren Braun-Strumfels discuss the long history of Italian migration to the US on the latest episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, another lively episode of the Labor 131 series.
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Impact of Italian Immigration on U.S. Labor History

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Lauren Braun-Strumfels of Cedar Crest College joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 8

Andrea Ringer shared her insights on the labor history of circus workers from the late 19th to mid-20th century on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast.
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Andrea Ringer on Circus Workers’ Labor History

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Andrea Ringer of Tennessee State University joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 7

@crrael.bsky.social joined America's Work Force Union Podcast today and spoke to Flash Ferenc about the 1984 strike at Disneyland and it's ongoing legacy for workers in Anaheim. Check out the latest installment of Labor 131 below!
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Disneyland Workers’ Struggle: From 1984 to Recent Victories

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Carie Rael of California state University joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 7

@rbatzell.bsky.social discussed his new book, "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery," on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. Check out the latest installment in the Labor 131 series via the link below.
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Rudi Batzell, UAW | Ken Margolies, Union Search

This edition of Labor 131, presented by the National Labor Office of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, features Rudi Batzell, Associate Professor of History at Lake Forest College and former UAW...

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 5

LAWCHA is partnering with America's Work Force Union Podcast for their Labor 131 series leading up to Labor Day. On today's show D. Caleb Smith from Mount Holyoke College joined Flash to discuss the origins and evolution of affirmative action. Check out the show!

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Labor 131: Affirmative Action's Evolution

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. D. Caleb Smith from Mount Holyoke College joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 4

LAWCHA is excited to be partnering with the America's Work Force Union Podcast for the Labor 131 series leading up to Labor Day. The series began today with @justinfdjackson.bsky.social in discussion with Flash Ferenc on the impact of wars on American workers.
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Labor 131: Jackson discusses the impact of wars on American workers

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Justin Jackson of Blue Cross Blue Shield joined us on today’s show.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · Aug 4

Nelson Lichtenstein's recent exploration of the intellectual journey of Mike Davis, which originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
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The Marxism of Mike Davis

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer Mike Davis.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · Jul 17

Interview with marvelous Anne S. Macpherson.
Thank you @lawcha.bsky.social
This is a labor history of Puerto Rican and southern white women and their fights for better working conditions, influence over terms of globalization, and control of pop representations of their work and unionizing.

Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae | LAWCHA

The Hollywood Movie Norma Rae defined working class women's experiences in the wake of neoliberalism. The film launched Sally Field into a cultural icon,

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Shelton Stromquist’s review of The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (@illinoispress.bsky.social) by David M. Struthers

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Erik Loomis’ (@erikloomis.bsky.social) review of Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press) by Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Charmian Mansell’s (@charmianmansell.bsky.social) review of The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe (@universitypress.cambridge.org) edited by Catriona Macleod (@catrionamac.bsky.social), Alexandra Shepard, and Maria Ågren.

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