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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association

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LAWCHA promotes public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing. Find us here: http://lawcha.org & http://lhrp.georgetown.edu Join here: http://lawcha.org/join/

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last wk.

Ian Rocksborough-Smith spoke to Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1945. Watch the interview at LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/07/23/e...

Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker on their new book, From Popular Front to Cold War | LAWCHA

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Elissa Sampson and Robert M. Zecker about their recent edited volume, From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The Trump attack on history would hollow out the institutions and recordkeeping that enable historical research while undermining existing scholarship," write Eileen Boris and Kristin Ahlberg. academeblog.org/2026/07/21/w...

Who Will Tell America’s 250-Year Story?

BY EILEEN BORIS AND KRISTIN AHLBERG In an interview with journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump claimed to be a great man, on par with world-shattering figures like Mao, Napole…

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · 2w ago

For high school history teachers, "autonomy has been increasingly undermined, class sizes ever larger, and workloads impossible - and dominated by f**king forms," writes @hannahforsyth.bsky.social in her latest substack. hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-future...

The future depends on excited, passionate, well-trained history teachers.

Conditions for enabling this have never been more difficult.

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Aimee Loiselle@aimloiselle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Without a permanent archivist, the National Historical Publications Records Commission has no chair to organize its semiannual meetings that determine which grants will be made to projects throughout the nation that preserve vital records @oah.org @aaup.org @lawcha.bsky.social

Who Will Tell America’s 250-Year Story?

BY EILEEN BORIS AND KRISTIN AHLBERG In an interview with journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Donald Trump claimed to be a great man, on par with world-shattering figures like Mao, Napole…

academeblog.org

LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · 4w ago

Janine Giordano Drake spoke to Christopher Cantwell about his new book, 'The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism.' Read the interview at LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2026/06/27/c...

Chris Cantwell on his new book, The Gospel According to Frank Wood | LAWCHA

Christopher Cantwell’s The Gospel According to Frank Wood: Memory and the Making of White American Evangelicalism offers an intimate look at Frank Wood,

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last mo.

#Peoples250 Kerry Motoviloff from Madison Teachers Incorporated remembers the Act 10 crisis in Wisconsin in 2011, when Governor Scott Walker stripped collective bargaining from public employees. #america250 #americanhistory #laborhistory #Wisconsin youtube.com/shorts/fgr5C...

#Peoples250: Kerry Motoviloff discusses the Wisconsin Crisis of 2011

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last mo.

At LaborOnline, Alan Singer shares the new 'AFL-CIO Statement of Principles: We Want a Just and Decent World,' the product of the recent convention in Minneapolis. lawcha.org/2026/06/22/a...

AFL-CIO Statement of Principles: We Want a Just and Decent World | LAWCHA

Historically, the AFL-CIO has had at best a checkered record with its positions on American foreign policy and its support for broader social justice

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Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · last mo.

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

Tony Mazzocchi Was a Champion of Worker-Whistleblowers

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last mo.

Colleen O'Neill joined Liza Black to discuss her new book, Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Read the interview at LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/06/19/c...

Colleen O’Neill on her new book, Waging Sovereignty | LAWCHA

In Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, historian Colleen O'Neill examines the rise of wage work

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last mo.

Nate Holdren’s essay “The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States” appears in the latest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social. You can read it for free at LaborOnline: lawcha.org/2026/06/13/t...

The Work of Forgetting | LAWCHA

Nate Holdren’s essay “The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States”

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Cornell ILR School@cornellilr.bsky.social · last mo.

A new report from #CornellILR’s Worker Institute examines the experiences of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders in New York State, highlighting their contributions to local communities, workplaces and the economy. 🗓️ Join us on June 30 in New York City for the launch of the report!

We Are Home

We will hold an in-person discussion of the findings from the TPS report, We Are Home. We will invite Temporary Protected Status workers, the unions that represent them, allies, policymakers and the p...

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · last mo.

In LaborOnline's final installment on the Black Anti-Fascist tradition, Javier Muñoz’s piece discusses six Black men from 1930s South Central LA who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. lawcha.org/2026/05/30/i...

“I really believe that Spain is the turning point of my life”: Antifascism from Los Angeles to the World | LAWCHA

This blog is the sixth in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”On the night of April 30, 2024, an alliance of Zionists, white

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the fifth installment of LaborOnline's series on the Black Anti-Fascist tradition, Ousmane Power-Green discusses Black Power antifascism and the debates and changes it underwent in response to the changing political landscape in the US in the late 1970s and 1980s. lawcha.org/2026/05/15/r...

“Recognizing Fascism for What it Really Is”: The Black Freedom Struggle and the Fight Against U.S. Fascism | LAWCHA

This blog is the fifth in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”Since the emergence of fascism in Italy and Germany, Black activists

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association@lawcha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Joseph Fronczak explore the Hands Off Ethiopia Movement of 1935 in part four of Labor Online's series on the Black Anti-Fascist tradition. lawcha.org/2026/05/09/p...

Pedagogue Protest: Lessons of Black Antifascism and the Hands Off Ethiopia Protests of 1935 | LAWCHA

This blog is the fourth in our ongoing series on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.”Protest is the best teacher. Hardly kindly, but its lessons stick. And

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