We are pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole was a co-winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, […]
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Alina R. Méndez Wins 2019 Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 LAWCHA (Labor and Working Class History Association) Gutman Prize! Congratulations to Alina R. Méndez, whose dissertation titled “Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and […]
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Discusses JAEH Article
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 […]
Dockworker Power First Recipient of a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought
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 […]
Celebrating 40 Years of The Working Class in American History Series
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 […]
3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway
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 […]
AAAS 2018 Conference Roundup
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 […]
#PressforProgress Reading List: Must-read books on Women in Labor
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 […]
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
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 […]
Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?
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 […]
“Working for Change: Stories of Labor History in Illinois”
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 […]
Backlist Bop: Women’s work is never done
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 […]