Rudi Batzell
@rbatzell.bsky.social
Book: "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" with UChicago Press. Historian of capitalism, labor, race, and gender inequality. Chicago DSA, motorcycle maniac, parenting fanatic.
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"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever
A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration
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October 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I discovered Tom Alter's work when I was tracing the legacies of Irish agrarian radicalism and I came across his research on the collaboration between Mexican and Irish radicals in the Texas Socialist Party.
Tom Alter has been fired after a supposed "due process" hearing. This is an extremely dangerous violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. Please donate and sign. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
Donate to URGENT: Tom has been fired! Defend him and free speech now!, organized by Kim Gasper-Rabuck
The Unthinkable has happened!
Dr. Tom Alter has been term… Kim Gasper-Rabuck needs your support for URGENT: Tom has been fired! Defend him and free speech now!
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October 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I discovered Tom Alter's work when I was tracing the legacies of Irish agrarian radicalism and I came across his research on the collaboration between Mexican and Irish radicals in the Texas Socialist Party.
Tom Alter has been fired after a supposed "due process" hearing. This is an extremely dangerous violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. Please donate and sign. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
Donate to URGENT: Tom has been fired! Defend him and free speech now!, organized by Kim Gasper-Rabuck
The Unthinkable has happened!
Dr. Tom Alter has been term… Kim Gasper-Rabuck needs your support for URGENT: Tom has been fired! Defend him and free speech now!
www.gofundme.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tom Alter has been fired after a supposed "due process" hearing. This is an extremely dangerous violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. Please donate and sign. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...
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Don't forget to mark your calendars for LABOR's Big Book Forum (Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET, via Zoom) featuring @rbatzell.bsky.social's new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery. The event is free and open to the public. Register today! go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025
October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Don't forget to mark your calendars for LABOR's Big Book Forum (Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET, via Zoom) featuring @rbatzell.bsky.social's new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery. The event is free and open to the public. Register today! go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025
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Very much looking forward to discussing "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" with @rbatzell.bsky.social, Lara Vapnek, Richard Price, and & Naomi R. Willians in @lawcha.bsky.social's 2025 Labor Book Big Forum, Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET online ⬇️⬇️⬇️
October 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very much looking forward to discussing "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery" with @rbatzell.bsky.social, Lara Vapnek, Richard Price, and & Naomi R. Willians in @lawcha.bsky.social's 2025 Labor Book Big Forum, Friday, October 17, 2pm to 4pm ET online ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Just landed in Atlanta for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social and excited to be participating in this new books roundtable this afternoon with Gus Wood and Naomi R Williams. So honored to have Joe Trotter as chair.
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just landed in Atlanta for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social and excited to be participating in this new books roundtable this afternoon with Gus Wood and Naomi R Williams. So honored to have Joe Trotter as chair.
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We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)
September 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are excited to announce Labor's Big Book Forum for 2025! Scheduled for Fri 10/17, 2-4pm ET via Zoom, this year we feature Rudi Batzell's (@rbatzell.bsky.social) new book: Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social)
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248 pages. 80,000+ words. 10 years in the making. It’s out of my hands (for) now. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer
Alt: a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer typing frantically
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September 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
248 pages. 80,000+ words. 10 years in the making. It’s out of my hands (for) now. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Read the Sun-Times article here: chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
August 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Read the Sun-Times article here: chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...
Quoted the great WEB DuBois in a letter to the Chicago Sun Times on OSHA nominee David Keeling, infamous for making UPS drivers cook, and why the history of slavery that Trump wants to hide from matters because it helps explain why US workers are so likely to be killed at work.
August 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Quoted the great WEB DuBois in a letter to the Chicago Sun Times on OSHA nominee David Keeling, infamous for making UPS drivers cook, and why the history of slavery that Trump wants to hide from matters because it helps explain why US workers are so likely to be killed at work.
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@rbatzell.bsky.social discussed his new book, "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery," on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. Check out the latest installment in the Labor 131 series via the link below.
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Rudi Batzell, UAW | Ken Margolies, Union Search
This edition of Labor 131, presented by the National Labor Office of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, features Rudi Batzell, Associate Professor of History at Lake Forest College and former UAW...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
@rbatzell.bsky.social discussed his new book, "Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery," on today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast. Check out the latest installment in the Labor 131 series via the link below.
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I am very sorry for publishing an OpEd with the Post Gazette while the @pghguild.com continues its strike. I am very embarrassed and sorry this happened. I was unaware of the strike. Still, there are no excuses for crossing a picket line.
August 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I am very sorry for publishing an OpEd with the Post Gazette while the @pghguild.com continues its strike. I am very embarrassed and sorry this happened. I was unaware of the strike. Still, there are no excuses for crossing a picket line.
OpEd this weekend using the history of the fugitive slave law and the story of Pittsburgh man kidnapped into slavery to examine the oppression and terror of ICE enforcement in immigrant communities
August 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
OpEd this weekend using the history of the fugitive slave law and the story of Pittsburgh man kidnapped into slavery to examine the oppression and terror of ICE enforcement in immigrant communities
"Resistance to ICE Recalls Resistance to Slavery in the 1850s" - excited and honored to have a guest Op-Ed in the West Coast's oldest and largest Black newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel lasentinel.net/resistance-t...
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Resistance to ICE Recalls Resistance to Slavery in the 1850s" - excited and honored to have a guest Op-Ed in the West Coast's oldest and largest Black newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel lasentinel.net/resistance-t...
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The resource that I've been working on for the past year has recently been released. It gathers the lost debates of the Irish Parliament from 1776-1801 - a period of deep upheaval in Ireland and the Atlantic world. Please explore at: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...
The Irish House of Commons, 1776–1801 - Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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July 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The resource that I've been working on for the past year has recently been released. It gathers the lost debates of the Irish Parliament from 1776-1801 - a period of deep upheaval in Ireland and the Atlantic world. Please explore at: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...
BE CAREFUL ON CALIFORNIA SOUTH OF DEVON SOUTHBOUND.
On my way to the Chicago Cycling Club Monday night group ride I hit the seam between the asphalt and concrete and came down hard on my right side. Broken hip and wrist, was in the hospital for a week with major surgery on hip.
#cycling #chicago
On my way to the Chicago Cycling Club Monday night group ride I hit the seam between the asphalt and concrete and came down hard on my right side. Broken hip and wrist, was in the hospital for a week with major surgery on hip.
#cycling #chicago
July 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Was incredible to talk with the great Dr. Gerald Horne about my book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery, on his show Freedom Now a few weeks ago. Just found out it aired on @kpfk907fm.bsky.social this morning.
July 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Was incredible to talk with the great Dr. Gerald Horne about my book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery, on his show Freedom Now a few weeks ago. Just found out it aired on @kpfk907fm.bsky.social this morning.
As soon I can walk, I'm tracking down the seemingly harmless seam in the road that did this to me. Cyclists look out for gaps/steps between asphalt roads and the concrete pads installed at many bus stops in Chicago.
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
As soon I can walk, I'm tracking down the seemingly harmless seam in the road that did this to me. Cyclists look out for gaps/steps between asphalt roads and the concrete pads installed at many bus stops in Chicago.
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A lot happening all at once here in LA. So much that is shared online, while fascinating, may be more atmospheric than informational. Reporters @laist.com have thorough update and no paywall. Support public media! laist.com/brief/news/f...
Immigration raids in LA
Where things stand in protests and response
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June 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A lot happening all at once here in LA. So much that is shared online, while fascinating, may be more atmospheric than informational. Reporters @laist.com have thorough update and no paywall. Support public media! laist.com/brief/news/f...
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I so agree, @rbatzell.bsky.social. The AHA needs to face up to its problem with democracy
Very disappointing to see this 'letter' on the AHA elections that completely ignores the actual reasons the regular slate is being challenged: AHA members voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza and the executive council vetoed it.
June 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I so agree, @rbatzell.bsky.social. The AHA needs to face up to its problem with democracy
Very disappointing to see this 'letter' on the AHA elections that completely ignores the actual reasons the regular slate is being challenged: AHA members voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza and the executive council vetoed it.
June 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Very disappointing to see this 'letter' on the AHA elections that completely ignores the actual reasons the regular slate is being challenged: AHA members voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza and the executive council vetoed it.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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If you are in Chicago next Thursday night, please join me and some bad-ass folks for a National Day of Action teach in on the Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights:
April 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If you are in Chicago next Thursday night, please join me and some bad-ass folks for a National Day of Action teach in on the Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights:
My book has arrived! Thanks to @uchicagopress.bsky.social for making sure it shipped in time for the @oah.org roundtable! Grateful, excited, and a bit nervous to have such an amazing crew respond to the project.
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
My book has arrived! Thanks to @uchicagopress.bsky.social for making sure it shipped in time for the @oah.org roundtable! Grateful, excited, and a bit nervous to have such an amazing crew respond to the project.
My book 💙📚 has a cover! Strange to have so many years of work distilled into a single image, but the designers @uchicagopress.bsky.social did a great job!
January 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
My book 💙📚 has a cover! Strange to have so many years of work distilled into a single image, but the designers @uchicagopress.bsky.social did a great job!