A new book about the fragmentation of the working class tells us much about the kind of society we are today, as Douglas Beattie discovered.
A new book about the fragmentation of the working class tells us much about the kind of society we are today, as Douglas Beattie discovered.
Saskia Müller and Benjamin Ortmeyer’s book examines the National Socialist Teachers’ League’s role in the Nazi system. Its publication prompted an open letter and a broad debate about the GEW’s Nazi legacy, including calls to explain publicly the renaming of the Max Traeger Foundation.
This special feature of ILWCH examines labor and AI through six articles on semiconductor labor regimes and digital human labor. It offers resources to assess claims about AI’s novelty and effects and opens up directions for future research.
A conversation between labor union activist Oleg Zhukov and Vadim Bolshakov, author of the “Istprof” project on the history of the labor movement. “Workers’ History” channel, October 18, 2026.
Aziz Çelik reviews Mine Dilan Kıran’s study of trade unions and politics under Turkey’s AKP. The cover photograph introduces an analysis of dependence on the state and employers, male dominance and “trade unionism without strikes”.
“What is our foremost task today? For the workers’ councils to take actual power in every factory and workplace, because, in social terms, the workers’ council is entitled to all the rights of an owner. Only now have the factories, banks, and land truly become theirs. Let us take great care of them…
Lorenzo Mazzoni revisits three books on Italian workerism, focusing on Workers and the State and Mauro Gobbini’s approach to workers’ inquiry, everyday political work in factories and strategy built from below.
Hiroko Shimizu reviews Moon Young-sook’s The Dark Sea, based on the testimony of Kim Gyeong-bong, a Korean survivor of the 1942 Chosei mine flooding in Japan. The book explores forced labour, colonial violence and the need to preserve the memory of this history.
In Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (2025), historian Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s path to becoming one of the most important labor radicals in US history, taking part in almost every major left campaign of the first half of the twentieth cen…
In this episode of Working-Class History, Oleg Zhukov and Vadim Bolshakov, creator of the IstProf project, discuss the origins of occupational associations in Rus' from the 11th to the 16th centuries.
On 7 October 1981, Poland’s Solidarity union adopted its programme for a self-governing republic. In this 2021 article, Pavel Kudyukin and Stepan Yarik revisit workers’ self-management, debates within the union and hopes for democratic change.
NTRODUCTION Sven Lindqvist’s book *Gräv där du står* (Dig Where You Stand), written in Sweden in 1978, was published in Turkish nearly half a century later. It had also taken 45 years for the English translation, *Dig Where You Stand*, to be published. Lindqvist offers a practical handbook for wor…
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