Happy Friday! This week we’re highlighting a member of the journal’s Editorial Committee: Margot Canaday, the award-winning historian of gender and sexuality at Princeton University!

Claire Raymond, the author of 20 books and many essays, describes the experience of precarious labor in the university corporate system. Take a look. 2nd in a series. #precariat lawcha.org/2024/02/16/soc…

lawcha.org/2024/04/02/lab… #FreeEssay alert --Check out the conversation "Coercion and Colonial Science in the Atlantic World"

lawcha.org/2024/03/25/on-… ICYMI: #FreeEssay to highlight the value of this website on women in the trades.

ICYMI lawcha.org/2024/03/20/rem… Continuing our series on Public History and in this case, a new book about a forgotten site of #laborhistory notthe #LUDLOWmassacre

lawcha.org/2024/03/28/a-d… ICYMI: Bob Bruno has a nice excerpt from his book that uses the words of his working-class students at UIUC Labor Education Program Illinois Press

For your weekend listening. Nelson Lichtenstein interviews Jason Resnikoff and Salem Elzway on automation, asking some great questions. lawcha.org/2024/04/05/whe…

New on Labor Online: Justine Modica gives us reason to cheer that her full essay on child care labor is available for free now! Thanks to LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History and Duke University Press for making it available : lawcha.org/2024/07/11/jus…

Up on the blog: Randi Storch interviews Maurice Isserman on his new book, Reds. lawcha.org/2024/07/29/mau…

On the blog-- Chad Pearson's review of the terrific book on Contingent Faculty available from Illinois Press lawcha.org/2024/07/23/cha…

This new essay on Teaching Labor History using keyword searches in the (translated) Chicago Foreign Language Press archive is just in time for Fall classes. Great contribution from @LiatSpiro (includes actual assignment and examples) lawcha.org/2024/08/06/tea…

Up now: Harvey Schwartz reviews Robert Cherney's monumental biography of Harry Bridges lawcha.org/2024/08/12/sch…

At the Milwaukee Irish fest

Get this deal--ends today

I'm sharing a trove of FBI files on civil rights activists that I obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Here's a link to the files: tinyurl.com/mryxyb39

Chad Pearson and Michael Hillard's account for the buzz at the The Business History Conference 2025 conference lawcha.org/2025/03/23/bus…

Up on the blog: Nate Holdren replies to report about the The Business History Conference comments, with a blog ruminating about the value lawcha.org/2025/03/27/whe…

As part of our series Marked, Unmarked Remembered, Rosemary Feurer tells how a new marker to an unsung African-American labor activist, was placed at a high-traffic location --from a public history coalition. lawcha.org/2025/06/26/spr…