Towards a Global History of the Early IWW
Understanding the history of the Industrial Workers of the World requires taking a global view. The common approach of looking only at the union’s US history, or looking at it only in one country, is inadequate and obscures transnational patterns.
Early Reparations Movements
Review of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Francis Berry
Class Struggle and the Jute-Mill Workers of Bengal
Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Cotton Mill Workers in the Southern U.S.
Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.
Coal Mining in the Ottoman Empire
Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.
Healthcare Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Milwaukee
Review of The Healthiest City by Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Suppression of Radical Unionism in the US
Review of “The Rise and Repression of Radical Labor” by Daniel Fusfeld
Domestic Servants and the Color Line
Overview of academic literature on the history of domestic servants in the US.
Three Conservative Locals
A history of three union locals in early 1900s Montana. The divergent evolution of each local is explained by class struggle, ethnic strife, and conflicts within the capitalist class.
Russia: Revolution, Counter-revolution
A history and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into totalitarianism.
A Short Biography of Nestor Makhno
A brief biography of the anarchist Nestor Makhno. Makhno played a major role in organizing the Ukrainian revolution and fighting counter-revolutionaries.