New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
Free labor history books from Temple University Press
Temple University Press has been known for publishing significant titles in labor studies. Given this long history, m
Workers of the World Unite (At Last)
By Ronaldo Munck, Mention the labor movement today, and activists might ask, “What movement?” Indeed, the vibrant lab
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-centur
ILO: Global wage growth lowest since 2008, women still earning 20 per cent less than men
The latest ILO Global Wage report finds global wage growth has been weak while the gender pay gap, at about 20 per cent glo
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
By Charles Umney, Ian Greer, Özlem Onaran, Graham Symon Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 fi
US Official Unemployment is at 3.9%? It is More Like 12%
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fNrU9wvZ8&w=843&h=474] Unemployment is low and standard
The Brief Origins of May Day
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many oth
New Book: The Half-Life of Deindustrialization – Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
By Sherry Lee Linkon. From University of Michigan Press: Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American ind
New Book: Class War, USA – Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History
by Brandon Weber. From Haymarket Books: An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United Sta
Call for papers: Labor and History in the 21st Century
40th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2018 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Th
Call for Submissions: Special Issue On Mexico & Labor Movement
The editors of Journal of Labor and Society (LANDS) invite submissions for a special issue on the Mexican workers and la
Call For Papers – The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution
CALL FOR ARTICLES RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences “THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS A LAB
Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Net Social Wage
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcFi5hP8tQ&w=760&h=500] A new paper from PERI finds that th
Remembering MLK’s Roots in Labor and Socialist Movements of the 20th Century
By Nathan Newman, As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, it’s worth remembering that his legacy was based firm
Call for Papers: Socialism and Labor – Theory and Praxis
Socialism and Labor: Theory and Praxis Special Issue of Labor Studies Journal In conjunction with the 2018 United Asso
RRPE Call for Papers: Special Issue on Precarious and Informal Work
Special Issue Collective: Ronaldo Munck, Tamar Diana Wilson, Ipsita Chatterjee, Ron Baiman, Lucia Pradella, Carlos
Laurentian University Faculty on Strike
The Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) has been working hard to negotiate a fair collective agreement