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The Canadian Committee on Labour History studies and promotes the history of working people in Canada.

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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.
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers

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A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers
Why we need a freedom agenda.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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At Windsor’s Titan Tool and Die, workers fight an outsourcing push

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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
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December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Uprising of the 20,000
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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.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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‘Always a Last Resort’: Nurses at 12 NYC Hospitals Vote To Authorize a Strike

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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.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Portugal’s General 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...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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New Book: "Johann Most: Life of a Radical"

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New Book: "Johann Most: Life of a Radical" | H-Net
JOHANN MOST: LIFE OF A RADICAL(University of Illinois Press, Dec 2025), 296pp.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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David McNally on his new book, Slavery and Capitalism

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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
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December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems

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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...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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As a tough year wraps, Unifor’s Lana Payne prepares for more challenges ahead

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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
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December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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‘I Come From the Shop Floor’: Rob Ashton Wants To Rebuild the NDP From the Working Class Up

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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...
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December 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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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2026 Conference » Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
2026 PCB Call for Papers We will be meeting July 29-31 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The 119th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association “We Hold Thes...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Government Is Withholding Data On Labour Relations

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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.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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A Year of Government Interference in Collective Bargaining

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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.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

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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...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Call for Papers - Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises

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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.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Job Alert - Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations
Duties & ResponsibilitiesProvide broad intellectual insights, top-tier scholarly credentials, and the leadership and managerial capacity to sustain an...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

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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...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Manitoba Workers Will Finally Be Protected From Asbestos

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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.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here’s Why

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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...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Makers of Modern China

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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
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December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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CFP: Comparative Labor Politics Workshop 2026

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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...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Naomi R Williams on their new book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity

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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,
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December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Yiddish Actors Give a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase, “Staging a Strike”

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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
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December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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What a Century-Old Press Service Teaches Us About Building Worker Power

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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...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM