New York Labor History Association
A bridge between past and present
Click here to read Prof. Melvyn Dubofsky’s review of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.
Click here to read Joe Doyle’s review of Song, Struggle, and Solidarity: The New York City Labor Chorus in Its Twenty-Fifth Year.
The newest edition of NYLHA’s newsletter, Work History News, is here! Click the image to the left to access the Summer/Fall 2021 issue.
The 22-page issue is the final issue edited by longtime editor Jane LaTour. As a leader for decades within the NYLHA, and within the broader New York labor movement, Jane has made an outsized impact on our organization’s work, and we wish her continued success in the next stage of her life, as well as congratulate her on yet another fantastic, wide-ranging newsletter.
We are pleased to announced that Keith Danish will take over as editor of Work History News. He can be reached at keithdanish@yahoo.com.
Back issues of Work History News can be accessed here.
Click here to read the newest NYLHA book review. Those interested in Southern organizing, the history of union busting, and personal accounts of organizing will be interested in Steve Early’s review of Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill: An Organizer’s Memoir, a 2020 book by Steve Cohen.