When we think about the history of railroad labor, we often think of engineers, sleeping car porters, or the workers who constructed the railroads themselves. But what about the cooks, nurses, and lau...

One of Hollywood’s most enduring symbols of worker activism came about when actress Sally Field stood alone on a factory table, handwritten "UNION" sign held high a…

It's official, "Working History" is back!  In our first episode back, Beth English—the founder, host, and producer of "Working History" vol 1—interviews Sarah McNamara, president of the Southern Labor...

After several long years off the air, the beloved labor history podcast is back! Now brought to you by the Southern Labor Studies Association, the Labor and Working-Class History Association, LABOR: S...

Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells

Hello online labor friends. I wanted to write a quick report on an Iowa Labor History Society (ILHS) event here in Des Moines. I should add, the Society

Ruby Oram’s Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines how working

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During the 2025-2026 academic school year, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center hosted a fantastic, year-long seminar series focused on labor

How New York's elite claimed authority over social welfare in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy.

How the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire exposed New York City elites and laid the foundations for modern charity

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: We go inside the Ohio factory where Scabby the Rat—and his friends the Greedy Pig, Fat Cat and Mother Jones—come to life. Dave Sherba of Inflatable Images tel...

Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.

Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women at the Federated Press explores the cooperative labor-focused news service, Federated Press (FP). The FP reached

Jane Berger grew up in Baltimore and wrote A New Working Class , which is an important labor history book about the civil rights movement and public sector unionism in Baltimore. Click here to v...

For more on the Little Falls strike, see J.N. Cheney's new book, Women, Immigrants, and Working-Class Battle in Little Falls, New York: The Textile Strike

The eminent labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein joins New Labor Forum Editor-at-Large Micah Uetricht to talk about the ongoing conflicts in the United Auto Workers (UAW) on the latest episode of Reinv

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial

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BY EILEEN BORIS AND KRISTIN AHLBERG In an interview with journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump claimed to be a great man, on par with world-shattering figures like Mao, Napole…

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BY EILEEN BORIS AND KRISTIN AHLBERG In an interview with journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump claimed to be a great man, on par with world-shattering figures like Mao, Napole…

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Robert Reich, among other critics, has warned that today’s media ecosystem is far more susceptible to authoritarianism than in the past. He blames this

Stephen Brier sent this exciting news:A new open educational resource edition of “Who Built America?” — the American Social History Project’s landmark

America turned 250 years old.

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Christopher Cantwell’s The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism offers an intimate look at Frank Wood,

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Historically, the AFL-CIO has had at best a checkered record with its positions on American foreign policy and its support for broader social justice

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

In Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, historian Colleen O'Neill examines the rise of wage work

By turning DEI into a slur, Trump and MAGA want to erase the radical promise of the movement that won civil rights.

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