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, […]
Category: labor history
Sean Burns discusses Archie Green on Berkeley’s KPFA radio
Sean Burns, author of the new book Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, was a guest on KPFA radio’s Against the Grain program. Hear Sean’s hour-long interview with co-host Sasha […]
Q&A with Sean Burns, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
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. […]
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
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 […]
NPR in SF interviews Will Kaufman
Will Kaufman, author of the new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was a guest July 25 on San Francisco’s National Public Radio affiliate KQED. Forum host Michael Krasny and Will Kaufman […]
Today in Labor History
Union Communication Services, Inc., points out that today is the anniversary of the 1993 lockout in Decatur, IL, as told in our book, Staley: The Fight for a New American […]
What Would Gompers Say? by Grace Palladino
For the first time since 1981—the year President Ronald Reagan famously broke the Professional Air Traffic Controllers strike—organized labor is back in the news. And this time the headlines are […]
The New York Times quotes UIP author Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer, author of the University of Illinois Press book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, was interviewed by The New York Times for a March 5, 2011, column on Wisconsin’s struggle […]
Blogging Wisconsin
Steven Ashby, co-author of the recent book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has been using the book’s website to share his on-the-ground account of the current labor protests in […]
Shadow of the Racketeer wins Labor History award
David Witwer’s book, Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, has won the journal Labor History‘s prize for the best book on labor history published in 2009. The book tells […]
Staley hat trick
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking has received an Award of Superior Achievement from The Illinois State Historical Society. This is […]
“Staley” wins another award
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking has been awarded the C.L.R. James Prize for Best Book in Working-Class Studies by […]