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The official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). A subscription to Labor is available through membership in LAWCHA.
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For Saturday's #WeekendRead, we recommend @salem_elzway and Jason Resnikoff's article "Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept." To read about technopolitics' intersections with labor history, check it out in our latest issue! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...?
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For Friday's #WeekendRead, we're looking to Manila and turning back to the early 20th century with
@jvbaldoza's "Science and Routine" to think about how scientific labor was organized and performed. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Hopefully everyone's making it through their Monday! Today, we're spotlighting another team member: Kim Phillips-Fein!
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For today's #WeekendRead we're thinking about power, energy conservation, and unwaged and gendered labor.
Trish Kahle's article "Electric Discipline: Gendering Power and Defining Work in Electric Power Systems" is available now! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Read the guest editors ( @sethrockman.bsky.social an.bsky.social, Lissa Roberts and Alexandra Hui) lay out their vision for the potential a collaboration between the history of science and labor history can bring to both fields. Enjoy!
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For our #WeekendRead rec, we suggest the Introduction to our newest issue (21.1).This is a special issue on LABOR and SCIENCE released as part of a trio of special issues with @HistorSci and @IsisJournal.
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At last, the new issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social has arrived to join its companion issues of @historyofscience.bsky.social and Isis! All of your history of science + labor history questions can finally be answered. Congratulations to co-editors Lissa Roberts and @alixhui.bsky.social.
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And finally there is Nancy Foner’s “The Other Side of Immigration: The Post-1965 Transformation of American Society” which looks at the 1965 Hart-Celler Act and its impact on demography. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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And then we have “Labor's Long Road to Immigrant Inclusion” by Ruth Milkman who looks at organized labor's changing views on immigration. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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This is followed by John Weber’s “The Immigration Act of 1924 and Farm Labor” Which examines the inhumane treatment of farm labor over time. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Next is “Nativism and the Bottom Line: Contemporary Legacies of the Immigration Act of 1924” by by Daniel Tichenor, which considers the contradictions between racial exclusivism and the perceived need for tractable labor in a migration state. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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The roundtable then moves to “The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924” an essay by Mai Ngai on the pre-1924 roots of exclusion. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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It begins with an introduction by Eric Arnesen, as his final piece as editor of the Up For Debate section: read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Our #WeekendRead recommendation for this week is a BIG ONE: Our special “Up For Debate” roundtable on the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Immigration Act in our recent issue of LABOR (20:4)!
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For this week’s Team Member Highlight, we’re proud to present: member of our editorial committee, professor of history at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and all around great guy, Erik Gellman!
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This weekend you get a DOUBLE #WeekendRead rec (because we got behind in our posts). We recommend this essay from our recent issue by the eminent historian Howard Brick, on the life and intellectual legacy of another eminent historian Nelson Lichtenstein read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Our recommendation for this #WeekendRead is from our recent issue of LABOR (20:4), then-LAWCHA president Will Jones' (@willpjones.bsky.social) address on “essential workers” from the Progressive Era to the COVID-19 pandemic. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl... Enjoy!
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Good afternoon! This week we’re highlighting another member of our editorial committee: Professor of History at Arizona State University, Shane Dillingham!
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If you’re not already, become a member of @lawcha.bsky.social today to access this and all 20 years of Leon’s past issues.
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Happy Friday! For this #WeekendRead we recommend our latest issue of LABOR (20:4)!
You can begin with the final Editor’s Introduction by Leon Fink as he says goodbye to the journal after 20 years! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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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!
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