Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking, authors of the new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, are on the road and writing a tour diary for […]
Category: labor history
What about those hotels?
Hey, The Samuel Gompers Papers received a mention in a Washington Times story on the AFL-CIO conference in Miami. […]
Peter Cole guest column in the Seattle-PI
Peter Cole, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, contributed a guest column to today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “On Thursday, […]
Just Landed: “Labor’s Cold War” and “The Great Strikes of 1877”
Two new books in our Working Class in American History series just landed on my desk: –Labor’s Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context edited by Shelton Stromquist (March 3, […]
To cross the picket line?
I love this post from Duke University Press’s publicist. It’s a window into the world of publishing, university press publishing, and MY JOB! Nice work. Note: I know you’re wondering, but […]
“Strike” by Peter Cole
Peter Cole is an associate professor of history at Western Illinois University and the author of the recently published University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism […]