labor history

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

The hugely influential but largely forgotten labor leader Ben Fletcher couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of today.

It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.  

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

The "new history of capitalism" cuts class politics at the expense of history.

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.

One academic tells the story behind his new book -- and his next one.

Who were the Molly Maguires, what did they do, and why did they do it?

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

The focus of labor history is often—unsurprisingly—workers’ organizations and what has made them thrive or languish. But employers organized, too.

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.

Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities. But at what cost?

The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.