Project MUSE®: Labor: Studies in Working-Class History - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.daily12026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 13 (2016) through current issueLatest Articles: Labor: Studies in Working-Class HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Labor: Studies in Working-Class History1558-14541547-6715Latest articles in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Associate Editor’s Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980211
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At Labor, we value opportunities to collaborate with scholars at all stages of their careers and to support work that pushes the field forward. It has been my pleasure to work closely with many of the authors featured in this issue, and I am honored to introduce their contributions. Common Verse opens the issue and features poet Caroline M. Mar, a San Francisco– based high school health educator and the great-granddaughter of a Chinese railroad laborer. Her poem “Portraits of the Ancestor,” drawn from her collection Water Guest, reflects on her ancestral ties to the transcontinental railroad built in the Lake Tahoe region.This issue’s three feature essays reveal striking and often unsettling dimensions of labor
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallAssociate Editor’s Introduction2026-01-21text/htmlen-USAssociate Editor’s Introduction2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®87792026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Portraits of the Ancestor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980212
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Alfred A. Hart, Heading of East Portal Tunnel No. 8 from Donner Lake Railroad #204, courtesy of Stanford University Special Collections and University Archives. This poem responds to photographs similar to this one in Tahoe: A Visual
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallPortraits of the Ancestor2026-01-21text/htmlen-USPortraits of the Ancestor2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®42282026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Poverty’s Capital: Labor Coercion and the Origins of the New York Bank for Savings
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980213
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On March 16, 1819, Tamar Felmenter opened an account at the New York Bank for Savings (NYBS), one of the first savings banks in the country. Felmenter, a Black domestic laborer, did so at the behest of her employer John Pintard, a wealthy merchant and one of the savings bank’s founders. During her life, Felmenter’s deposits grew, and by her death in 1832, she had amassed $600. The story of Felmenter appears to support the narrative historians have developed about the emergence of savings banks in the United States, one that has largely painted the motivations of early savings bank promotors, as well as the economic services the banks provided, in a positive light. During the first half of the nineteenth century
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallPoverty’s Capital: Labor Coercion and the Origins of the New York Bank for Savings2026-01-21text/htmlen-USPoverty’s Capital: Labor Coercion and the Origins of the New York Bank for Savings2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®1261512026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21“Gentle Lady, Beware of Frowns”: The Culture of Domesticity as a Paean to Emotional Labor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980214
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Mary Cabot Lee Higginson retreated to the comfort of her bed on an early spring evening in 1833. Beneath the covers, Higginson felt, was the “only place where I can feel quiet & nobody can see me, if I do cry there.”1 To the family she was visiting, Higginson should have been in the highest of spirits. She was just reaching the pinnacle of her life, achieving all the markers of successful womanhood as outlined in the emerging cultural discourse of domesticity in the United States. She had married up-and-coming merchant George Higginson the prior year, and she was anticipating the birth of her first child. Yet Mary seemed overwhelmed rather than exhilarated by her new position in life. She heard frequently from her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmall“Gentle Lady, Beware of Frowns”: The Culture of Domesticity as a Paean to Emotional Labor2026-01-21text/htmlen-US“Gentle Lady, Beware of Frowns”: The Culture of Domesticity as a Paean to Emotional Labor2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®1258712026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Damned Women: Fetal Protection as Employer Offensive at American Cyanamid
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980215
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In 1978, women production workers at the American Cyanamid chemical plant in Willow Island, West Virginia, learned that they would soon have to make a distressing choice. In a series of meetings with small groups of women, company officials announced a “fetus protection policy.” They were told that doctors and lawyers at American Cyanamid’s headquarters in Wayne, New Jersey, had long been at work on a plan to protect any potential fetus from exposure to a range of chemicals produced at the factory, located on the southern bank of the Ohio River. After May 1, 1978, any woman between the ages of sixteen and fifty “whose ability to become pregnant has not been precluded by surgical means” would be “out the gate” and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallDamned Women: Fetal Protection as Employer Offensive at American Cyanamid2026-01-21text/htmlen-USDamned Women: Fetal Protection as Employer Offensive at American Cyanamid2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®1756732026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21The Cost of Compliance: Unpacking Worker Identity in Severance
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980216
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Severance, an original series created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, has struck a nerve with audiences by encapsulating what it is like to be a worker under late-stage capitalism. Set against the backdrop of a sci-fi mystery and sleek visuals, Severance feels shockingly familiar to anyone who’s ever felt trapped in a job, alienated by corporate jargon, or reduced to a title on an org chart. Surpassing Ted Lasso as Apple TV+’s most watched series,1 Severance “secured 681 million streaming minutes”2 by the fifth episode of season 2, suggesting that its portrayal of office life resonated, even within a fictional frame. Fans have flooded Reddit with theories, memes, and personal reflections, recognizing in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallThe Cost of Compliance: Unpacking Worker Identity in Severance2026-01-21text/htmlen-USThe Cost of Compliance: Unpacking Worker Identity in Severance2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®577872026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980217
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Seth Rockman, professor of history at Brown University, is the author or editor of three books, as well as numerous essays, almost all of which explore the intersections of slavery and capitalism and slavery and technology. These interests frame his most recent work. A finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History and winner of the 2025 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery follows northern-made tools, shoes, and bolts of coarse cloth as they pass through the hands of New England workers, industrialists, and agents before landing on the backs and in the hands of America’s enslaved laborers. In Seth’s deft handling, these items tell more than the story of a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallPlantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery2026-01-21text/htmlen-USPlantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®229722026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Behind the Scenes: Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980218
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On the evening of March 14, 2024, more than one hundred activists, students, and scholars crowded into the front gallery of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, an outpost of Tulane University’s School of Architecture in the predominantly Black Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. A jazz trio led by Gregg Stafford, a cofounder of a benevolent society known as the Black Men of Labor, provided music that spread across the gallery’s tall ceilings. Between bites of jambalaya and red beans and rice, attendees embraced as they reunited with friends and comrades from a range of unions and community groups. Many of the visitors had actively participated in the history that appeared on a dozen
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallBehind the Scenes: Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans2026-01-21text/htmlen-USBehind the Scenes: Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®657052026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980219
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Slavery experienced explosive growth in Britain’s Atlantic empire. In 1650, small numbers of captive Africans toiled on tiny pockets of land, principally in Barbados and Virginia. When emancipation came in 1838, approximately half a million people labored to produce enormous quantities of sugar, cotton, and coffee for a voracious British public. Atlantic slavery’s malignant growth is paradoxical, though, because the enslaved people whose forced labor drove the system constantly resisted their bondage: They tried to seize the slave ships that took them to the Americas, refused to work on plantations, and staged bloody rebellions. Well might historians describe Atlantic slavery as a constant “war” between enslaved
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallThe Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USThe Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Randy M. Browne (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®80412026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980220
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Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers is an intriguing book, focusing on nineteenth-century satirist Mortimer Thomson and his 1857 under-cover exposé of the “witches of New York,” working-class women earning money through fortune-telling or clairvoyant pronouncements. Author Marie Carter is a tour guide for Boroughs of the Dead, which specializes in New York City tours focused on the “strange, macabre, and ghostly” (1).Drawing from her work as a tour guide, Carter brings to life the stories of the Bowery and Lower East Side, neighborhoods that once sheltered New York’s working class. Through her narrative, we follow Mortimer’s escapades as he moves from one tenement to another
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallMortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USMortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®74752026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. Cherny (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980221
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Born in Australia in 1901, Harry Bridges became one of the most famous labor organizers in US history. At sixteen, Bridges left home to become a merchant seaman. Departing the most unionized nation in the world at the time only to land in the United States, one of the harshest labor markets anywhere, was a radicalizing experience for a young man with budding leftist instincts. The American workplace was especially exploitative for longshoremen, a job Bridges took on the San Francisco docks in 1920. The young Australian quickly emerged as a leader, as he and his fellow rank and file on the docks built two of the most formidable labor unions in the world, first the International Long-shoremen’s Association (ILA) and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallHarry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. Cherny (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USHarry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend by Robert W. Cherny (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®101632026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet by Patrick Dixon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980222
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Patrick Dixon takes McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets seriously. The result is a fantastic history of the rise of the poultry industry and further processed chicken, which serves as a broader exploration into American society as told through the interrelated stories of workers, poultry companies, restaurants, and consumers. That Dixon tells this complex history in such a concise, readable, and compelling manner is a testament to his skills as a writer and scholar.Nuggets of Gold does a wonderful job of exploring the complex relationship between, on the one hand, the rise of the poultry industry—including the concentration of corporate power, the shift toward further processed chicken, and the broader struggle of poultry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallNuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet by Patrick Dixon (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USNuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet by Patrick Dixon (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®77482026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990 by Allison Elias (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980223
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This deeply researched and provocative account traces how feminism did—and did not—change women’s work in US corporations in the second half of the twentieth century. Among its central questions is how to account for the persistence of occupational gender segregation among clerical workers, who remained more than 95 percent female as of 2010. To investigate this, Elias, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, trains her lens on secretaries and their changing identity, drawing on the archives of leading secretarial training schools, including Katharine Gibbs, as well as the records of the national female-led, feminist labor organization 9to5. Feminist activism did
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallThe Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990 by Allison Elias (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USThe Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960–1990 by Allison Elias (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®75472026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program by Caitlin Keliiaa (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980224
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Caitlin Keliiaa’s Refusing Settler Domesticity not only provides a necessary additive to the historiography of Indian boarding schools but also offers a unique approach to the longer history of Indigenous labor exploitation in California. The book examines the history of the Bay Area Outing Program, a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) program administered by white female outing matrons, which was modeled after boarding school outing programs but was unaffiliated with any one school. Keliiaa’s study focuses on the period between 1918 and 1942, when the outing program facilitated the employment of Native girls and women from boarding schools (mainly Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada; the Sherman Institute in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallRefusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program by Caitlin Keliiaa (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USRefusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program by Caitlin Keliiaa (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®85772026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America by Mary Klann (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980225
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With a few notable exceptions, Native American history and labor history rarely intersect. The same is the case for scholarship on American social welfare and Indian policy. Historical research on Social Security or the GI Bill generally fails to consider Native Americans, and studies in Native American history largely focus on policies that involve land dispossession, schooling, and resources. It’s as if Native Americans exist in a separate universe, far removed from the economic, legal, and social realities that workers, including white and other people of color, navigate.In Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, Mary Klann
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallWardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America by Mary Klann (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USWardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America by Mary Klann (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®74972026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality by Leta E. Miller (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980226
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The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) was a union to be reckoned with in the early to mid-twentieth century. Affiliated with the AFL, the union represented musicians who performed in movie theaters and in symphony orchestras; at Broadway shows, local theaters, and on radio and television stations; for the Hollywood studios and the record producers; at nightclubs, restaurants, saloons, gambling houses, dance halls, and burlesque shows; on public marches, in private homes, and at weddings. In other words, AFM musicians performed at every kind of musical venue. Although most of its members were white, the union also enrolled several thousand African American musicians. However, except in Detroit, New York City
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallUnion Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality by Leta E. Miller (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USUnion Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality by Leta E. Miller (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®87222026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Between Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900–1942 by Daniel Morales (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980227
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With Between Here and There, Daniel Morales reminds us that all immigrants are emigrants and that returning home was both an intention and a consequential experience for those who left Mexico in the early twentieth century. Consistent with its title, his narrative follows two generations of labor migrants back and forth across borders, both international and domestic. Four of seven chapters transpire in El Norte and follow a well-traveled historiographical trail. Yet the study begins and ends in Mexico, offering novel insights into pioneering migratory networks, federal policy initiatives, and the impact of returning migrants. He thus introduces a south-of-the-border perspective to Mexico’s first era of mass
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallBetween Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900–1942 by Daniel Morales (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USBetween Here and There: Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900–1942 by Daniel Morales (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®89162026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980228
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Premilla Nadasen brings together her extensive work on the history of paid domestic labor, organizing movements, and the welfare state in her most recent book’s comprehensive analysis of capitalism at the heart of the US care economy. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism places the racial and gender histories of social reproduction in direct conversation with the contemporary US economic landscape, where new scales of profit and exploitation are extracted from the work of women of color. Nadasen draws on multiple dimensions of care labor to illustrate shifts in the neoliberal capitalist system’s dependence on this sector. She asserts, “Care work has not only impacted how people are able to care for their families
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallCare: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USCare: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®104212026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920 by Julia Ornelas-Higdon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980229
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Presenting an “alternative narrative” of California history, Ornelas-Higdon’s study will make anyone who enjoys a glass of California wine think about the hands that picked the grapes, the feet that pressed them, and the historical roots, literal and figurative, of successive waves of conquest and racialization projects in the region (201). Ornelas-Higdon argues that California’s early wine industry “reshapes our understandings of how conquest played out; how citizenship, race, and notions of whiteness were constructed; and how agribusiness developed across the region over the long nineteenth century” (5). The study examines the role various groups played in constructing race and rural land ownership, particularly
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallThe Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920 by Julia Ornelas-Higdon (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USThe Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920 by Julia Ornelas-Higdon (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®89532026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980230
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Brenda Stevenson’s What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family begins in the twenty-first century with Michelle Obama’s appearance at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. As the Obamas prepared to exit from their role as America’s First Family, Mrs. Obama spoke about the significance of her family’s residence in the White House, a structure built by enslaved people. During his campaigns and his presidency, President Obama assured the American public that he and his wife had a Black family that was exceptional and admirable. Never mind that his family of origin was not normative or that his wife grew up in a two-parent working-class home, facts that prove long-held
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallWhat Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)2026-01-21text/htmlen-USWhat Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family by Brenda E. Stevenson (review)2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®94382026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21Letter to the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/980231
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We wish to respond to Hasia R. Diner’s review of our coedited volume, With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism, in the September 2024 issue of Labor, especially to its characterization of Jewish anarchists as having “created no institutions that drew people in, provided for their needs, and, in the process, left their mark on Jewish or American community life.” Our anthology documents anarchist contributions not only to institutions (such as labor unions and mutual aid societies) that provided for workers’ material and communal needs, but also to transnational literature and art, revolutionary movements, feminist thought, and modern understandings of Jewish identity.Diner writes, “The socialists won
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/679/image/coversmallLetter to the Editor2026-01-21text/htmlen-USLetter to the Editor2026-01-212026TWOProject MUSE®69642026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-01-21