Category Archives: labor history

February 18, 2019

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Discusses JAEH Article

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Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Victoria and the project director for Landscapes of Injustice, a seven-year, multi-partner research project exploring the forced dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Dr. Stanger-Ross … Continue reading →

December 21, 2018

Dockworker Power First Recipient of a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

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The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole has been selected as the first grant recipient from the Howard D. and Marjorie … Continue reading →

August 31, 2018

Celebrating 40 Years of The Working Class in American History Series

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This labor day weekend, we are celebrating 40 years of The Working Class in American History Series! The Working Class in American History series publishes research that illuminates the broad dimensions of working people’s influence in North America. The series … Continue reading →

August 3, 2018

3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway

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The University of Illinois Press is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. In order to celebrate, we decided to do something special for our readers. In honor of 100 years, we have already given away two iPads pre-loaded with 100 UIP ebooks, … Continue reading →

March 28, 2018

AAAS 2018 Conference Roundup

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Are you headed to the 2018 Association for Asian American Studies conference in San Francisco? We are! Here is a preview of new books in The Asian American Experience series to look out for at AAAS. Here are 5 books to … Continue reading →

March 8, 2018

#PressforProgress Reading List: Must-read books on Women in Labor

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  In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender equality, and we will be updating our Little Free … Continue reading →

December 6, 2017

The Halifax Explosion of 1917

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, one of the worst maritime disasters in Canadian history. Two thousand people died and 9,000 were hurt when the SS Mont-Blanc, full of a cargo of explosives, collided with the SS Imo, a Norwegian … Continue reading →

November 1, 2017

Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?

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        In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, co-editors of the edited collection Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism, write about how employers use racism to divide … Continue reading →

July 12, 2017

“Working for Change: Stories of Labor History in Illinois”

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An exhibit titled “Working for Change: Stories of Labor History in Illinois” greets visitors as they enter the North-South Corridor of the main library on the UIUC campus. A series of six cases filled with objects ranging from flyers and … Continue reading →

March 9, 2017

Backlist Bop: Women’s work is never done

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Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar, professional women, in fact, working-class women were a powerful force in the campaign for gender equality. “Rights, Not Roses” explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to … Continue reading →