May is Labor History Month—a celebration of the achievements of American workers and their struggle to get better rights. We are happy to offer a glance at some our most […]
2025 Labor History Month Reading List
Category: labor history
Q&A with the author of PUBLIC EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REFORM
Thomas J. Suhrbur, author of Public Education and Social Reform: A History of the Illinois Education Association, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
OAH 2025 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2025 Organization of American Historians conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Free E-book Giveaway: A MATTER OF MORAL JUSTICE
February’s free e-book is here! Check out A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice by Jenny Carson before the month is over! Like […]
AHA 2025 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Q&A with the author of THE GREEN NEW DEAL FROM BELOW
Jeremy Brecher, author of The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you […]
Q&A with the author of HISTORY’S ERRATICS
David M. Emmons, author of History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with the author of LEARNING FOR WORK
Connie Goddard, author of Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? The book […]
Q&A with the author of LISTENING TO WORKERS
Daniel J. Clark, author of Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with the author of CIRCUS WORLD
Andrea Ringer, the author of Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
Q&A with the editors of A DAVID MONTGOMERY READER
Shelton Stromquist and James R. Barrett, the editors of A David Montgomery Reader: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance, answers questions on their new book. Q: Why did you decide […]
Q&A with the author of SAN FRANCISCO REDS
Robert W. Cherny, the author of San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]