More than a month into the killing, the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union becomes the first AFL-CIO-affilated national union to explicitly call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Will other national unions follow? Read The American Postal Workers Union - APWU's full statement: apwu.org/news/internati…

McKerley has have 2 wrap-around updates on this essay LaborOnline lawcha.org/2023/10/12/a-s… & lawcha.org/2023/10/23/a-s…

Up on the blog: Joseph Rathke interviews Max Fraser on his new book, Hillbilly Highway. An important book that takes on the urgent need to understand the role of the white working class. lawcha.org/2023/12/15/max… Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Joseph Rathke

Great read: James C. Benton interview about his 2022 Illinois Press book on trade policy and textile/apparel workers lawcha.org/2024/01/17/jam…

Rachel Donaldson interviews Paul Shackel about his new book lawcha.org/2024/01/30/pau…

@StevenParfitt has a powerful commentary on his essay at Labor Online, the first of a series lawcha.org/2024/02/06/res…

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 Liat Spiro (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…

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