International Labor and Working-Class History

Deadline extended for the ILWCH special issue on "Hot Work." Submit your abstracts by October 15! @SeldaAltan2 @EduardoContre

Please consider submitting your abstract for our upcoming special issue on labor and planning! Deadline 1 October 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

ILWCH is out with a special issue on night work edited by Allyson Brantley and Lori Flores. Check out the introduction here cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Check out the latest issue of ILWCH here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Deadline extended for abstract submissions for our special thematic issue on “The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence! Submit a 250-word abstract by 15 April 2025. For more details check out: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are inviting submissions for a special thematic issue on “The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence” Send us your abstract by March 31st! For more details check out: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

Jaira J. Harrington's review essay explores black women’s integral role in the labor history of Latin America and the Caribbean. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

ILWCH is here with an exciting retrospective on the history of global labor and socialism. Check out Marcel van der Linden's introductory essay on labor's rise and decline cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our senior editor, Mae Ngai, explains how Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is the latest part of America’s history of ‘alien citizenship’. Check out the article! blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

Check out this article from ILWCH's latest issue: Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido (open access). cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congrats to our Editorial Board member Mae Ngai on winning the Bancroft Prize for American History!!! nytimes.com/2022/03/16/art…

My article with Limin Teh comparing the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun coalfields is now available Open Access in @ILWCHJournal. We argue there were profound similarities between the two, namely the use of racial hierarchies to organise work. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sharing another piece from the Fall 2021 print issue: @LewisPzPaleto's great study of the political iconography of the Follonsby miners’ banner and revolutionary trade unionism. doi.org/10.1017/S01475…

Boosting another piece from the Fall 2021 Print Edition: David Leupold's ‘Building the Internationalist City from Below’ (Originally published digitally in 2020): doi.org/10.1017/S01475…

Tagging @simschaupp, the author, because we couldn't find them earlier!

Need some reading on the German Revolution of 1918-1919 this afternoon? We got you! Sharing Simon Schaupp's analysis of social and technical class composition, alongside adjacent crises of social reproduction, during the Bavarian Council Republic: doi.org/10.1017/S01475…

Our twitter hasn't been active so as to respect the Columbia strike, but we are now back to sharing new publications! Please take some time to read through our Fall edition linked below. We will be featuring individual pieces over the next few days: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We urge faculty and administrators to respect the right of student workers to act on their convictions regarding unionization, negotiations, and strikes.

The ILWCH editorial board stands in solidarity with the labor struggles of student workers at Columbia University, where the journal is based. We wish them success in their efforts to win higher wages, better benefits, and a safer campus for all students, staff and faculty.