RIP Betty Reid Soskin — age 104. As a Rosie The Riveter park ranger — she was a storyteller of her own journey, and of America’s past century. My book ‘Troop Movements’ (2026) is about such ordinary/extraordinary working people — whose WW2 struggles echoed onward, for decades since. 💐

What connects labor and military history? The new LABOR Up for Debate, “The Wages of War,” tackles that question head-on. This WHOLE ROUNDTABLE is FREE to read for the next 3 months. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Tejasvi Nagaraja’s “Gotta Study War Work More” takes us to WWII, showing how soldiers and civilians weighed the “wages of war” in pursuit of justice, democracy, and survival. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Our latest issue (22:4) is now available online! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...

Joel Eis explores the world of Progressive Era theater and the militancy of Yiddish actors in his new article for LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2025/12/05/y...

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Read this — ‘Surrealism Against Fascism’ by Naomi Klein. — Would suggest this fresh take be read in conversation, with Robin DG Kelley’s Freedom Dreams.

RIP playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard — what an eclectic body of work…

RIP the playwright Tom Stoppard — — Here’s my 2008 review of the Broadway production of “Rock 'n' Roll”, starring the great Brian Cox. ‘Stoppard — having explored the revolutions of 1848 and 1871 and 1917 — now takes on 1968 and 1989 in Rock 'n' Roll…’ indypendent.org/2008/02/what...

Fresh new magazines — worth checking out — Long-Haul and Jamhoor 📖 📖

50 years ago — origin of our times: * Oct-Nov 1975 — In NYC, Wall St public-private ops usher neoliberalism. In South América, Operation Condor: a public-private, multi-polar terror war. * Oct-Nov 2025 — Lula & Mamdani meet Trump, try to hold the line — as GOP wars target NYC and América.

@smh-historians.bsky.social: can labor and military history work together? I discuss below with John Hall, Reena Goldthree, @tejnagaraja.bsky.social, revisiting our debate in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall until February!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...

50 years ago — origin of our times: * Oct-Nov 1975 — In NYC, Wall St public-private ops usher neoliberalism. In South América, Operation Condor: a public-private, multi-polar terror war. * Oct-Nov 2025 — Lula & Mamdani meet Trump, try to hold the line — as GOP wars target NYC and América.

Giving thanks today to Rosemary Feurer for this conversation on "The Wages of War" forum in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall!) with historians John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V... See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...

@lawcha.bsky.social — @justinfdjackson.bsky.social — @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social "Up for Debate — The Wages of War: Debating Military and Labor History" youtu.be/jC-VfNhQARs?... with — Justin F. Jackson, Reena Goldthree, John W. Hall, Tejasvi Nagaraja read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...

Here's video/audio of our panel discussion — on the links between labor & military concerns. w/ Rosemary Feurer, Justin F. Jackson, Reena Goldthree, John W. Hall, Tejasvi Nagaraja This accompanies our published forum in the journal Labor. Check it out! lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...

Interesting times…

*Nov 19 — The migrant worker Joe Hill was executed — Around the world, wherever working people struggle, he lives on beside them. #1u *Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️‍⚧️ An injury to one, is an injury to all.

NYT's Douthat talks to NatCon's Hazony 🎧 The conservative educated-elite has been the main booster of antisemitism. Douthat+Hazony oppose condemning antisemitism. With nuance — their priority is to learn from and keep antisemitic elites as GOP operatives. podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/u...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

*Nov 19 — The migrant worker Joe Hill was executed — Around the world, wherever working people struggle, he lives on beside them. #1u *Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️‍⚧️ An injury to one, is an injury to all.

"This marks a huge win for the broad coalition of faculty, staff, students, and labor unions that brought the lawsuit..." @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afscme.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @uaw.org

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

11-4-1975 — Halloween Massacre led by Rumsfeld and protégé #Cheney. For 50 years, GOP leads DNC — with adaptive repertoire of executive power, foreign war, class war. Trump/Vance take it to new levels. 11-4-2025 — Among new DNC electeds, some will acquiesce; while others seek a new horizon.

📣 Awesome documentary reporting from the brilliant Anjali Kamat — on working-class South Asian politics in NYC. #DemocracyNow Over a quarter-century, from post-9/11 to 2025 — working-class organizing, from DRUM to Taxi Workers, has made a mark on NYC. #1u

‘Mamdani appeared on a panel with anti-caste activist Prachi Patankar — and emphasized the need for leadership from Dalit & marginalized caste communities, to counter the rise of Hindu nationalism… Mamdani cosponsored a caste protection bill in New York state.’ newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...

#1u — #LaborHistory

#1u — #UAW — #LaborHistory

Workers engaged BLM, MeToo, unions — to challenge corporate hierarchies. Yet billionaire elites use anti-woke, anti-DEI, anti-Pal, anti-trans — to suppress worker voice & all speech. “You’re fired!” is always core Trump slogan. All political issues today, are about worker democracy vs boss power.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

For better or for worse, Americans have no shared understanding of a spectrum — of what terms like moderate, liberal, progressive, left mean. MSNBC says, that the GOP says: “The left [Jeffries] has been taken over by its progressive wing [Mamdani].” 🧐 youtu.be/JHlzpY5M6RE?...

JCPA — ‘We must remain clear-eyed about how antisemitic extremism, is being mainstreamed in the highest levels of power — avowed neo-Nazis in senior government roles; the embrace of deadly conspiracy theories that inspire violence; the gutting of programs intended to counter domestic extremism.‘

An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife

We share our love and solidarity with Jewish and immigrant communities, and all who are targeted by white supremacy. May we keep fighting antisemitism — like all forms of bigotry — in solidarity with our neighbors. Together we can build a country where all are safe and free.

‘Seven years ago — was the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in US history.’ ‘We explain how the antisemitic, anti-immigrant, racist lies spread by Trump and MAGA politicians motivated the shooter — and continue to pose a threat to our collective safety.’ www.bendthearc.us/new_video_7_...

An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife

2018, Oct 27 — Pittsburgh massacre 2019 — El Paso 2022 — Buffalo The biggest-ever antisemitic violence in USA — killing Jewish, Latino, Black people. Top MAGA-GOP leaders boost "gre*t repl*cement" and "wh*te genoc*de" antisemitism. Why won't Democrats and the media, confront this antisemitism?

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

Hey @smh-historians.bsky.social: interested in connecting American labor and military history? Check out our debate on "The Wages of War" in the new Sept. 2025 issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social, including essays by John Hall, Reena Goldthree, and Tej Nagaraja...

Checkout the latest issue of Labor read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/... With a forum on class & war, labor & military — with @justinfdjackson.bsky.social, Reena Goldthree, John Hall, @tejnagaraja.bsky.social Thanks to @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social, William P. Jones, @greeneland.bsky.social

To read our great content, join the Labor and Working Class History Association! Join us in the fight. Only $50, or $20 for students, contingent scholars, and unemployed. www.dukeupress.edu/labor-and-wo...

Join us next Tuesday to hear about my book Box 25:Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social thanks to @iehs.bsky.social for organizing this!

You can judge this issue @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social by the cover! Don't miss @justinfdjackson.bsky.social's important essay on the connections between labor history and military history, with responses from John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

Really fascinating essay, and deeply relevant to our own times. @tejnagaraja.bsky.social details different ways of thinking about war and labor and the misconceptions you can run into along the way. Agency, knowledge, intersectionality, types of labor, social perception. So many moving parts.

The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!

Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...