Tag: labor history

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 874

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 13, 2021

This is the grave of David Montgomery. Born in 1927, Montgomery grew up pretty well off, joined the Army Corps of Engineers shortly after World War II, working on the nuclear reservation in Los Alamos, and then went to Swarthmore College, graduating in 1950 with a political science degree. He became a communist in 1951. […]

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Ten Years of This Day in Labor History

By Erik Loomis

On July 6, 2021

Ten years ago today, new to this blog, I decided to start a series called “This Day in Labor History.” The first post was on the Homestead Strike in 1892. Intended to bring necessary knowl

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I Repeat Myself When Under Stress

By Erik Loomis

On February 22, 2021

I’m giving a virtual public talk on labor history Thursday evening at 6 eastern for the Rhode Island Historical Society that uses the Brown and Sharpe Strike here in the 1980s as a entrypoint in

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 284

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 18, 2018

This is the grave of the Haymarket Martyrs. The events of the Haymarket bombing are fairly well known and I’ve written them up, so you can read it for the basic background. Buried in the Haymarket tomb are the original five martyrs–August Spies, Louis Lingg, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Albert Parsons. Two of the […]

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A History of America in Ten Strikes

By Erik Loomis

On July 8, 2018

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve been working on my next book, A History of America in Ten Strikes. Well, it’s being published by The New Press in October. Some advance reviews ar

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Labor Historians, the White Working Class, and Trump Voters

By Erik Loomis

On September 2, 2017

Jefferson Cowie has an excellent essay on how labor historians totally missed Trump. And he’s right–it’s that way too many labor historians have huge ideological blinders that romant

A Little Help From My Friends. Or Whatever You People Are.

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 14, 2017

Imagine a scenario with me, if you will. I would like to take my labor history posts and turn them into a website and app that would create the possibility for labor history tourism around the country. I would like to create said site and app that allowed me to link to my essays that […]

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Ten Great Labor History Books

By Erik Loomis

On January 6, 2016

Miners coming out of mine shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 Backlist asked me to submit a list of ten books on U.S. labor history I would recommend for a broader audience. It is here, with explanatio

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Labor History in the Classroom

By Erik Loomis

On May 19, 2015

Above: Strikers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1949 While right-wing states are freaking out about the new AP standards (never mind that this year’s AP US History DBQ was on the rise of the conserv

Labor Historians and the Labor Movement

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 8, 2013

I was asked to provide a write-up of a panel at the Labor and Working Class History Association meeting on the Chicago Teachers Union struggle. It gave me an opportunity to muse a bit about the relationship between labor historians and the labor movement (and really between any social movement historians and the social movement […]

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