I was very happy to write the conclusion for the new book of essays organized and edited by Aviva Chomsky and Steve Striffler, Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston, w
For the last couple of years, I’ve posted my reading list as a historian. Here it is for 2019. Here is 2018’s list. And here is 2017. And let’s not forget good ol’ 2016. Let me
So, um, yeah. I’ve been pretty AWOL for… a while. Among other things, Alex Cooley and I got the reviews back from Oxford University Press for our book. Because it really needs to come out
As it so happens I’ve done two podcasts on my various books that were released yesterday. Since they are both about labor, it’s perfect timing! First, is In the Past Lane, hosted by Edward
The last two years, I have put up my professional reading list. Here is the 2017 list and here is the 2016 list. So let me just repeat what I said last year. Just as a refresher, I read these books fo
It’s only a month until A History of America in Ten Strikes is released and so it is going to be all publicity all time. Oh boy! Anyway, I did an author Q&A for The New Press for your Labor
Zora Neale Hurston is one of the greatest literary and anthropologist treasures in American history, despite her dying completely forgotten and in poverty in 1960. Her 1931 novel Barracoon is finally
At the end of last year, I put up a list of the books I read for professional reasons in 2016. People seemed to like it, so here is this year’s list. Just as a refresher, I read these books for