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

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/kelly...

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...

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)

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!

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/popul...

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: awf.labortools.com/listen/from-...

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/labor...

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

@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! awf.labortools.com/listen/jessi...

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/impac...

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/andre...

@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! awf.labortools.com/listen/disne...

@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. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

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! awf.labortools.com/listen/labor...

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. awf.labortools.com/listen/labor...

Nelson Lichtenstein's recent exploration of the intellectual journey of Mike Davis, which originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/07/mike...

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.

Finally, Volume 22, Issue 2 wraps up with fifteen standout book reviews you won’t want to miss:

Duke University Press authors: If you have any talks or events scheduled in July or August, please let us know so we can help promote them! Email Laura Sell at lsell at duke.edu or message us here.

What shaped Mike Davis’s fierce critique of American capitalism? In a powerful tribute, Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social maps Davis’s journey from New Left Review to City of Quartz and beyond. Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...

In mid-20th-century Ecuador, US officials waged an ideological battle through labor education, media, and travel grants to promote an anticommunist agenda. Marc Becker’s new article in LABOR 22:2 explores the complexities and contradictions of this Cold War campaign. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Appreciative of this Brown University write-up, especially as the work of humanists is not always recognized as "research" these days. Worth mentioning here that NEH funding helped make this book possible-- and without the NEH, future scholarship is going to suffer. www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...

It was great to see so many great labor historians at the @lawcha.bsky.social conference in Chicago this past weekend! If you’re looking for something to do with that conference paper, consider turning it into an article and submitting it to LABOR: www.dukeupress.edu/labor#ForAut...

Very excited to present at the @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social conference this week! First, on a panel with fellow labor archivists about my education work with the @uaw.org, and later representing the Michigan Labor History Society on a panel about labor history organizations.

See you @lawcha.bsky.social LAWCHA Conference Chicago. And join the Contingent & Community College Faculty and Indecent Scholars Committee for a social with the Cook County College Teachers Union.

In 1888, the same year slavery ended in Brazil, drought ravaged Ceará. “Arid Roads to Coercion,” by @felipeazv.bsky.social reveals how postabolition policies forced thousands into coerced labor. Read it here: doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Summer’s here! With the semester done, and the grading behind you, now’s the perfect time to polish that draft and send it in. LABOR is seeking bold, original work on labor and working-class history, politics, and culture. Submit your article today: www.dukeupress.edu/labor#ForAut...

Volume 22, Issue 2 of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social‬ is now online: buff.ly/LTP4RwM Read "Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights: A Path Beyond the Liberal Order, 1966–1984" by Joseph Rathke, made freely available for a limited time: buff.ly/2JJCzzz

Want more on how Illinois teachers transformed the labor landscape? Swing on over to LaborOnline for a new blog post by the author, where he digs into the story behind his LABOR essay: lawcha.org/2025/06/02/i...

The first article we’re highlighting from LABOR 22:2 is Joseph Rathke’s “Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights” about how educators transformed the Illinois Education Association into a militant union and won one of the strongest public sector labor laws in the US. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Our new issue, Vol. 22, No. 2, is now available online! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...

"Economic Miracles and Their Afterlives," a special issue of Radical History Review edited by Ravinder Kaur and Barbara Weinstein, is now available! View the TOC and read the introduction: buff.ly/OA5cGdW Buy this issue: buff.ly/qAAZscC

LABOR's latest issue was born at a conference at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum Germany. Check out @hannahforsyth.bsky.social's blog for the story of how she traveled halfway around the world (made longer by a bit of train chaos in Düsseldorf) to get there hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/that-time-...

To close out Volume 22, Issue 1, here are fourteen sensational book reviews:

Are courts about to undo nearly 90 years of labor law? In this issue’s Contemporary Affairs piece “Relitigating the New Deal,” Diana S. Reddy explores the surge of constitutional challenges to the NLRB and what they reveal about labor’s recent gains and the backlash doi.org/10.1215/15476715-11521422

At the height of labor’s power, U.S. policymakers tried to restrain wages to fight inflation, redrawing the boundaries of worker rights and state control. Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social tracks how this effort helped unravel the New Deal order. Read here: read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

Did postwar worker participation boost mobility… or contain it? Jan de Graaf compares shop-floor power in the Communist Bloc and capitalist Western Europe, showing how unions and skilled workers participated in making immobility a goal, not a flaw, of postwar social democracy doi.org/10.1215/1547...

At the height of West German social democracy, efforts to "humanize" work gained state support, but not without union pushback. Stefan Müller @mueste300.bsky.social explores this ambitious reform era and its tensions in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda and Joe McCartin were among the guests on @poweratwork.bsky.social last week. Watch the video below. poweratwork.us/crossover-le...

Join the Contingent & Community College Faculty and Independent Scholars at the LAWCHA Conference -- for socializing with the Cook County College Teachers Union @lawcha.bsky.social @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social Fri 6/13 at University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall, West Lounge

✌🏾Today is #Liberation Day — the day people defeated fascists. But freedom wasn’t handed over — it was fought for. 84 years ago, 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ workers went on #strike in Belgium against Nazis - their courage paved the road to liberation. This is the story of the "Strike of 100,000". Follow the thread🧵

I was delighted to host this panel discussion called "No Time for Caution: How Labor Can Meet this Moment" with organizer/strategist @stephenlerner.bsky.social & leading labor scholars @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, @willpjones.bsky.social, and @stephluce.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWp-...

“Fordism’s Underside: Women's Work in Postwar Italy,” by Eloisa Betti explores how postwar Italy’s image of stable, full-time employment masked the precarious realities of women’s labor, and how women organized to challenge and transform that gendered system. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Join the Contingent & Community College Faculty and Independent Scholars Committee (CCCFIS) for a 6/13 social with the Cook County College Teachers Union (CCCTU) -- at the @lawcha.bsky.social Conference at the University of Chicago June 12-14 @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

The second article from our special issue on the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy is Gerd-Rainer Horn’s “Workers and Catholicism in Postwar Western Europe and Latin America” doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Taking a break from our current issue to spotlight this excellent podcast episode featuring Justine Modica on the Worthy Wages movement—childcare workers organizing for dignity, fair pay, and recognition. Based on her article from our May 2024 issue!

Why did corporatism take root in postwar Germany but not in the U.S.? In the first article of this special issue, @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social explores how both countries shared surprising similarities in the 1940s–50s—before diverging sharply in labor relations models. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

Watch a replay of last night's LAWCHA Book Talk here on YouTube: Justin Jackson hosts a discussion with historians Titas Chakraborty and Stacy Fahrenthold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF0b...

In addition to our new layout, and fabulous cover, this issue is also remarkable because it is a Special Issue on the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy. To begin, check out the Introduction which is free to the public for the next three months read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...