Erik Gellman

AFT, AAUP Launch Nationwide Campaign, ‘Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy’ WASHINGTON—The AFT and the American Association of University Professors, together representing the country’s largest and most powerful force of higher education workers, launched a major national cam...

Once again, if you teach or conduct research in higher ed, please join @aaup.org

This Day in Labor History: April 17, 1937. Tobacco workers in Richmond, Virginia went on strike in what became pioneering civil rights labor organizing in the South, laying the groundwork for the rise of the Black labor struggle after World War II. Let's talk about this little known action!!!

I borrowed heavily from Erik Gellman’s excellent Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights in the writing of this post.

The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars.

In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk:

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Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers

This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

Cover of Southern Cultures “Queer South” issue

It’s real!!! We did it!!!

YouTube video by Haymarket Books Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

If you missed our conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine about Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDJ...

Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”

I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...

Plutopia

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Zoom Book Talk!📖 On 2/26 at 4:00 PM, Labor Historian Debbie Goldman, @cwaunion.bsky.social
Area Director Pat Telesco and KI Associate Director @lanewindham.bsky.social Windham will discuss call center workers, AI, and the lessons labor can learn from history! #LaborSpring

👉http://bit.ly/cwaqa

If you work in higher education in the US, now is the time to join the AAUP. Your campus doesn’t even need to have a chapter, you can join the National org. @aaup.bsky.social

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, human rights activist and former chair of Young Lords organization, dead at 76 Mr. Jiménez spent much of the late '60s and early '70s fighting gentrification in Lincoln Park, allying with other organizations in Chicago to uplift minority and low-income communities, and rallying ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a human rights activist who served as chair of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday. He was 76.

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Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects ...

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Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut History Podcast · 20 Episodes · Biweekly Series

On this Xmas, finally listening to Fragile Juggernaut podcast (on 1934 episode RN). Loving it, debating aspects, which makes it so worthwhile. It’s not the end of a conversation but reopening many old and new ones. Congrats to its contributors and Haymarket.

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David Montgomery and the Vitality of Labor History From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work shaped their political horizons.

A DAVID MONTGOMERY READER reviewed in @thenation.com!

James and Esther Cooper Jackson - The University Press of Kentucky James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor. In tur...

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