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Category Archives: labor history
The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition
in american history, author commentary, Chicago, Illinois / regional, labor history, radical studies
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Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia entry for the Haymarket Affair to reflect new research about the historic … Continue reading
Author Stephen K. Ashby Talks about the Chicago Teachers’ Strike
in Chicago, Illinois / regional, interviews, labor history
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Stephen K. Ashby, co-author of Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has spoken out strongly over the past several weeks about the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike. Last week, as the strike was suspended, he participated in … Continue reading
Working Class Studies Association award for Archie Green
in american history, awards, labor history
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The Working Class Studies Association has awarded Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero a 2012 CLR James Award for Best Book. Archie Green celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century and captures the many dimensions of … Continue reading
Daily Yonder reviews Archie Green
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Sean Burns’s recent biography of folklorist Archie Green is the subject of an extended review in Daily Yonder. “Fascinating and insightful. . . . Burns provides an absorbing account of Archie’s experience in student politics in the early Depression years. For … Continue reading
The Haymarket Conspiracy author vs. Wikipedia
in labor history
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In September 2012 we will publish The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks by Bowling Green State University professor Timothy Messer-Kruse. BGSU issued a press release yesterday relaying details of Dr. Messer-Kruse’s recent battles with Wikipedia over his attempts to update the site’s entry on … Continue reading
Q&A with We Are the Union author Dana Cloud
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On December 5, 2011, we published We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing by Dana Cloud, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Cloud discusses labor unrest at Boeing and how a … Continue reading
Q&A with Sean Burns, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
in american history, author commentary, interviews, labor history
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On November 7, 2011, we will publish Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, which celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century. Sean Burns is a teacher, musician, gardener, and leader of the Berkeley, California-based … Continue reading
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
in american history, labor history
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Immanuel Ness’s new book Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism just landed on my desk. The official publication date is October 3, 2011, but we will begin shipping back orders over the next two weeks. In Guest Workers, Ness, … Continue reading
Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union
Posted by michaelLisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is the “renegade union” of the book’s title? Phillips: Local then … Continue reading →