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A Deep History of White Working-Class Conservatism: The Strange Career of America's Anti-Union Miners

A Labor Centennial: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917

African American Workers and their Historic Quest for a Living Wage

Age Ought to Be a Fact: The Campaign against Child Labor and the Rise of the Birth Certificate

American Industrialization and Deindustrialization

American Labor's Rise, Fall, and Troubled Present

American Postwars: Exploring American History as Postwar History

B

Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Working-Class Sophistication

C

Caring for America: A Dialogue on Justice, Dignity, and Health Care

Citizens on the Job: Gender, Race, and Rights in Modern America

Civil Rights Unionism

Consumer Boycotts as Abolitionist Strategy: Free, Family, and Requited Labor in the Antebellum United States

Creating an American Home: Gender, Geography, and Resistance in America's Company Towns

Crises in Cotton's Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Yellow Fever in Late Nineteenth-Century Memphis, Tennessee

“Capitalism in Reverse”: The United Farm Workers’ Grape Boycott and the Power of Interracial Community Organizing

D

Demise of the Working Class and the Fluorescence of a New Black Politics

Democracy on Trial at Home and Abroad: A. Philip Randolph and the Meanings of World War II

Diaspora, Race, and the Canal Builders: Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans in the Construction of the Panama Canal

Ditch Diggers of the World: Capitalism, Expansionism, and Working-Class Formation

Domestic Workers Organize, Past and Present

Don't Blame the Workers: The Myth of Working-Class Conservatism

E

Indígenas in the Fields: Mexican Indigenous Communities and the Bracero Program

Engaged Learning in the Anti-Immigrant South: Building Bridges in a Hostile Environment

Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong about Labor History and Social Class

F

F%#* Work, A Manifesto: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea, or What Is to Be Done When Work Disappears

Foregrounding the Black Worker: The Colonial and Early American Roots of Today's African American Community

G

Globalization, the Garment Industry, and New York City in the Postwar Era

I

Imagining the Eternal Village: Death and Working-Class Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century America

Immigrants and Free Labor in North America, 1865-Present

Immigration and Work in America: An Historical Perspective

Is There Any Hope for Labor? A Look Back and a Glimpse at the Future

K

Killing for Coal: Energy, Work, and Power in the Colorado Coalfield Wars of 1913-1914

L

Labor and Capital in Nineteenth-Century America: The Standard-of-Living Controversy Revisited

Labor Battles of the 1930s

Labor Rights in the Age of Trump

Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America

LGBT Rights and Labor Solidarity

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Meet Joe Copper: How Understanding the History of Men on the World War II Home Front Shifts Our Understanding of Mid-century America

Men at Work: The End of the Great Depression and the (Lost) Future of New Deal Culture

Missouri Miners Breaking Bad: How the "Show-Me State" Got Its Name

Movable Empire: Labor Migrations and the Making of U.S. Global Power, 1890–1934

Myths and Realities of the "White Working-Class Voter"

Myths of Solidarity: Race, the African American Labor Tradition, and the History of American Labor

N

Neoliberalism, Domestic Work, and New Models of Labor Organizing

New Directions in Worker and Community

No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers, Deportable Labor, and the New Jim Crow

Not So Free Labor in the American West

P

Pacific Coast Longshore and Maritime Labor, from the Gold Rush to Containerization

Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Civil Rights: The Activism of Maida Springer, George McCray, and A. Philip Randolph

Poverty Wages, Not Lovin' It: From the War on Poverty to the War on Poverty Wages

Prelude to the Industrial Order: Black Workers on the Eve of the Great Migration

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R

Repertoires of Resistance: Social Unionism and Workers’ Education in Interwar America

Rights, Capabilities, and Solidarities: Bridging Civil Rights and Labor Organizing for Economic Democracy

S

Seamstresses and Whores: Working Women and Women's Work in the Industrial Century

Searching for Mother Jones

Social Rights and Domestic Labor

Solving the Servant Problem: Domestic Service and Labor Reform during the Progressive Era

T

The Alchemy of America's Lead Rush: When Miners Turned Hard Rock into Gold

The Anthracite Miners' New Deal: The Thirties

The Ebbs and Flows of American Trade Unionism

The Industrial Working Class: The Foundation of the Modern Black Freedom Movement

The Labor Vision: What the Thirteenth Amendment Meant to Its Framers

The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph: Civil Rights, Labor, and the New Black Politics

The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1965: Conflicts and Convergences

The Nature of Labor: Working-class Visions of the Environment, 1800-Present

The Other Lost Cause: Southern Labor and Working-Class History

The People Yes! Labor's Subversive Economics and the Rebuilding of America

The Problem with Prison Reform

The Rise and Fall of the American Labor Movement in the Twentieth Century

The Rise and Fall of the Labor Question in American Public Life

The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: How a Public History Project Changed the Law, Changed School Curricula, and More

The Southern Cotton Mill World

The Spirit of Memphis: Public Employees and the Dignity of Labor

There's No Place like Home: Long-Term Care and the Growth of Low-Wage Labor in the U.S. Welfare State

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U.S. Labor and Economic History from 1800 to the Present

Undocumented Workers: Hidden Histories of Labor Radicalism from America's Turbulent Past

W

"We Are All Fast Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages

Walk a Century in My Shoes

What is Southern Labor History?

What is Work? Who is a Worker? Homeworkers, Household Workers, and Poor Single Mothers

Women and the Work of Empire: Housewives, Servants, and Others in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1914

Women, Work, and Welfare: A History of Gender and Precarious Labor

Work, Women, and Wobblies: The IWW Strikes in Colorado's Coal Fields, 1927

Working for Wages in Frederick Douglass's Baltimore

Working-Class Courtship As Tribal Ritual: Non-Romantic Mate Selection in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Laboring Class

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You Are What You Shop: Women Against the Sweatshop, Past and Present