Help, #labor historians! Favorite books on labor and #capitalism in the 1980s?? Thanks!

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

A rare happy story: The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has restored its holdings of the works of the enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants, following the pattern of Holocaust art restitution, the first time a museum has restored a work produced by an enslaved person.

IEHS Fall Online Book Event Happening TOMORROW Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next IEHS online book event with Julie Greene and Brendan A. Shanahan Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion. Register: iehs.org/event/online...

Here's a question for you. In an 1838 letter, a man felt bad for two friends whose wives had some kind of condition. What is the condition he's referring to? Then he describes his wife as vegetatively powerful (fertile)? This is my greatx3 grandfather talking about my namesake, Julie Bayrhoffer.

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!

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

The government is shut down, costing us $15 billion a week. Congress can’t meet because then a new member would join, democracy would be fulfilled, and the GOP can’t let that happen. Nearly half the historic White House has been destroyed. Private funds are paying troops. GOP rule sure is great!

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!

For more from LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING CLASS HISTORY, join LAWCHA! www.dukeupress.edu/labor-and-wo...

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

Can’t wait! Join us if you can.

Tomorrow!

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Rudi Batzell takes on some of the biggest questions in US and British labor history in his new book. Join us Friday for a riveting discussion about his arguments and more!

please contact the president of Texas State University, Kelly Damphousse, and urge him to respect academic freedom and the first amendment and restore Professor Tom Alter to teaching. [email protected], 512-245-2121. aaup-texas.org/blog?blog=y

LAWCHA Statement on the Unjust Firing of Professor Thomas Alter

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

Join @aaup.org and be represented by its ROCK STAR legal team!

***Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online Books Series*** Join @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Michael Salgarolo. October 28, 2025, 4:15-5:30PM EST Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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)

Hooray!

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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.

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

While we continue to track the administration’s attacks on the federal workforce, one thing is becoming clear: federal spending is up while the government’s ability to deliver on basic services is declining. unbreaking.org/issues/equal...

Looking forward to this convo— please join us!

Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.

Happy Labor Day, anti-Fascist friends!

A GIANT WHEELIE? CALL IN THE TROOPS!

Danziger

Now this is what it’s about! This gives me hope for the future!

My god this is creepy.

Challenge:post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell hole it is. [I love D— priest at SCOTUS]

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

Observe the emerging alliance between fascism and an ossified Democratic Party leadership: Cuomo meets with Trump to plot the anti-Mamdani campaign. Which Demo leaders will condemn this?

I love Lincoln Nebraska and I love this woman. 💕

Congrats to @culinary226.bsky.social & @unitehere.org this victory has been lifetimes of work for countless workers. #1u #union

Heads up!

Totally normal country we are living in now.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

This is so good. Things I’ve been saying but more eloquently—

In case you need more dystopia today, this was in our little free library this a.m. Brand new copies too, like someone’s trying to spread the good AI word to wee children—

Please share: excellent history Postdoc opportunity at Wesleyan's Center for the Study of Guns & Society. Post involves archival research on 18th and 19th century firearms use & laws; work on databases, reports, and papers; & thinking and writing around wonderful people doing important work.

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.

Killer thread about history and how it can’t be done well without historiography

devastating editorial by Omer Bartov (Israeli born, IDF veteran, leading scholar of the Holocaust). Reflects on not only the mass murder in Gaza but what this means for international law, historical memory, Holocaust studies, and Holocaust museums. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...