Welcome to H-Labor, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Labor is particularly interested in fostering international discussion and colaboration on labor history topics. It also recognizes that teaching the history of workers entails maintaining some knowledge of working people and their unions today.
Here is a note on a funding opporutnty for contingent faculty scholar, independent scholar, or community college faculty member from the LAWCHA president...
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I am not a specialist on Lewis or the UMWA but I am a trained labor historian. My speciality is Latin America but I have read a lot of books on US labor history, especially the UMWA. My view is that Lewis was a formidable force but he also did not allow dissent from his membership. He was an authoritarian figure who promoted business unionism and was anti-communist. I am a fan of the book Death and the Mines: Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers (1971) by the journalist Brit Hume.
Don't have any insights on Lewis, but am wondering if Guerin's account of his US travels in the late 1940s is available in English? He visited some of the local and International leaders of the United Rubber Workers in Akron, in a period of sharp factional battled within the union.
Dear colleagues,
New Hagley History Hangout episode available: From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly be
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is pleased to announce the re-release of the original film version of MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE (1984),
During the 1920s, major American corporations established in-house labor unions to address worker agitation. Labor historian Alex John Fleet, PhD candidate at Wayne State University, explores the phenomenon in his dissertation research.
There were many liberties taken in Matewan. Sayles acknowledged some of them in his book Thinking in Pictures. Few Clothes wasn't part of any of the events depicted in the film; he took part in a related struggle. The film's bittersweet ending is one of numeorus compressed moments. Matewan was one of a series of upheavals linked to the longer Battle of Blair Mountain, which even included aerial bombings of strikers and gun gangs hiding in the hills. (That wasn't as bad as it could have been as it was the early days of flight and bombing was not very accurate.)
Sacramento, host city for NCSA’s 2023 conference, lends itself to exploring issues of revivals and re-creations of the past. Sacramento’s nineteenth-century history encompassed California’s Gold Rush, the genocide and displacement of Indigenous populations, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and the building of a capital city that became a stage for the reinventions–productive and problematic–of the past so central to the nineteenth century.
