Canadian Committee on Labour History

To wrap up the year, here are LABOR’s Most Read Articles of 2025! @dukepress.bsky.social is making these articles free for all to read from now until January 31, 2026.

A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers Why we need a freedom agenda.

A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers

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At Windsor’s Titan Tool and Die, workers fight an outsourcing push Locked-out workers watch their jobs flee across the border as their employer demands major concessions

At Windsor’s Titan Tool and Die, workers fight an outsourcing push

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Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Uprising of the 20,000 Building worker power has always been an uphill battle. Revisiting history can guide us forward. An interview with Erik Loomis.

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Uprising of the 20,000
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‘Always a Last Resort’: Nurses at 12 NYC Hospitals Vote To Authorize a Strike The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize a strike for 20,000 nurses in NYC — a move made just two weeks before their contract expires.

‘Always a Last Resort’: Nurses at 12 NYC Hospitals Vote To Authorize a Strike

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Portugal’s General Strike December 11 saw a massive general strike in Portugal. This was not just a workplace dispute but a political strike, directed against the government’s planned labor reform. Trade unions widely see this...

Portugal’s General Strike

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New Book: "Johann Most: Life of a Radical"

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David McNally on his new book, Slavery and Capitalism | LAWCHA In his new book, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, David McNally intervenes in ongoing debates over the relation between slavery and capital

David McNally on his new book, Slavery and Capitalism

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Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems - CCPA There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costl...

Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems

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As a tough year wraps, Unifor’s Lana Payne prepares for more challenges ahead TORONTO - The head of Canada's largest private-sector union says she's glad to be putting this year behind her, but next year will present a whole new set of daunting

As a tough year wraps, Unifor’s Lana Payne prepares for more challenges ahead

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‘I Come From the Shop Floor’: Rob Ashton Wants To Rebuild the NDP From the Working Class Up For years, critics inside and outside the New Democratic Party have warned that the party is drifting away from its historic base. In election after election, the NDP has struggled to connect with the...

‘I Come From the Shop Floor’: Rob Ashton Wants To Rebuild the NDP From the Working Class Up

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Call for Papers

The 119th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

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The Government Is Withholding Data On Labour Relations ESDC removed data tables reporting ‘work stoppages’ from its website several months ago.

The Government Is Withholding Data On Labour Relations

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A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.

A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining

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Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global His...

Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

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2026 Annual Conference - Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

Call for Papers - Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises

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Job Alert - Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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How One Black Labor Union Changed American History The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a century ago this year, black sleeping car porters hoping to form a union at th...

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

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Manitoba Workers Will Finally Be Protected From Asbestos After years of pressure from labour, there will finally be a strict certification program to ensure workers are protected.

Manitoba Workers Will Finally Be Protected From Asbestos

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Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here’s Why August Code works at the first ever Starbucks location to unionize in 2021. But four years after that vote, he and his co-workers in Buffalo, New York, are still waiting on their union contract. “I wo...

Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here’s Why

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The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution

The Makers of Modern China

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Comparative Labor Politics Workshop 2026 submission form Labor Politics, a Related Group of the American Political Science Association (APSA), invites abstract submissions for the Sixth Annual Comparative Labor Politics Workshop. The workshop will take plac...

CFP: Comparative Labor Politics Workshop 2026

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Naomi R Williams on their new book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity | LAWCHA Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Naomi R Williams about their recent book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin,

Naomi R Williams on their new book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity

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Yiddish Actors Give a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase, “Staging a Strike” | LAWCHA One of the earliest foundations of the progressive theatre movement in America was contributed by the Yiddish Theatre, 1887–1913, in the formation of the

Yiddish Actors Give a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase, “Staging a Strike”

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What a Century-Old Press Service Teaches Us About Building Worker Power This won’t come as a surprise to union activists, but the mainstream press doesn’t always fairly represent the labor movement. That was true in 1919, the year the Federated Press (FP) was founded, and...

What a Century-Old Press Service Teaches Us About Building Worker Power

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The Mostest Anarchist These days, and once again, “anarchism” has become an official swear word. For Trump’s Justice (or injustice) Department, every anarchist appears to be a violent member of Antifa, remarkably so becaus...

The Mostest Anarchist

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They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They've Been Surrounded by Death Ever Since.

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The Specter of War in Labor History | LAWCHA The new issue of of Labor is now available. The entire Up For Debate forum section of the issue will be available for free until January 26, 2026. The

The Specter of War in Labor History

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Labor 2025 Big Book Forum: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery | LAWCHA On October 17, historian Rudi Batzell presented at the Labor 2025 Big Book forum about his new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global

Labor 2025 Big Book Forum: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery

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Federal government takes down labour strike data relied upon by unions, researchers Ministry says ‘stakeholders raised concerns’ about data on its website, gives no timeline for republishing

Federal government takes down labour strike data relied upon by unions, researchers

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