Labor History starter pack
Scholars, activists and institutions who post about the histories of work, workers, unions, class, labor etc.
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@willpjones.bsky.social
@emmaamador.bsky.social
🌳 Historian @ UConn — Book, The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke UP, *May 2025*) 🌿 Research Fellow @ CENTRO (2024-25) 🍃this is my personal account, doesn’t reflect the views of my employers🍃
@garveyitewmn.bsky.social
Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Historian, Researcher/Writer, Author, Teacher, Child of the Black Diaspora
@alexoberlaender.bsky.social
Russian/Soviet history Cultural History of Work History of Sexual Violence History of Emotions associate editor @ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History OEI/FU Berlin FSO Bremen #skystorians
@keithbeard.bsky.social
Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, CAMRA member since 1975
@anrchivist.bsky.social
Archivist/research librarian writing radical history/environmental history/history from below. Latest: Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. He/him. https://jared-davidson.com/
@madameclair08.bsky.social
Bronx Raised | Historian | Writer | Prof | Author of Author of Sex Workers, Psychics, & Numbers Runners (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
@eileenboris.bsky.social
Feminist historian of intimate labors, race and gender, home as a workplace and domestic labor. Activist scholar on care. UCSB Hull Chair.Vice-President of LAWCHA Likes yoga, hiking, and fashion
@zsw.bsky.social
I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds. https://abolition.university/
@euanhealey.bsky.social
PhD historian and archaeologist of labour, subsistence and environment (and fish) at Uni of Glasgow. Antifascist & trade unionist. Baggies, Jags, Warriors, Canucks. Pilgrim through this barren land. he/him.
@kenyonz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th century migration, labor, and radicalism. Author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. kenyonzimmer.com
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
@neilwarner.bsky.social
Researcher in political sociology at LSE. Interested in history & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
@peterlamb1.bsky.social
I write about socialism, Marxism, International relations theory etc. Recent books: Historical Dictionary of Socialism, 4th ed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024); Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
@imperialhistorian.bsky.social
💁🏾 Imperial Historian 📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism 🦉 @reed_college_ 📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids! https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan
@tonigilpin.bsky.social
Labor Historian, writer. Loyal to Chicago but longing for Paris. Author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor & Class War in the American Heartland https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1383-the-long-deep-grudge
@rickhalpern.bsky.social
Historian, Author, Cook, Photographer, critical thinker. photos: http://500px.com/p/ucrahex
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@hyildizhistorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
@benstangelo.bsky.social
PhD from @osuhistorydept. I study African American, Labor, Civil Rights, and Environmental History. Managing Editor: http://picturingblackhistory.org #blacklivesmatter
@caycarbs.bsky.social
Historian of Early America | Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College | Writing about households, labor, and power | W&M PhD | she/her 🌈
@zchsll.bsky.social
Historian. Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (UNC Press) https://t.co/nY8Z8GaFO0
@patrickluck.bsky.social
Historian of slavery in the lower Mississippi valley and early republic Union president, UFF-Florida Poly Author of Replanting a Slave Society, https://upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/ Book review editor for H-Early-America
@proenzacoles.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
@bydreamphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd
@etshermer.bsky.social
Historian, Yogi, Hiker, World Traveler, Animal Lover, especially cats www.etshermer.com
@hagleycenter.bsky.social
Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
@guprofbc.bsky.social
aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
@eidlin.bsky.social
Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
@kerileighmerritt.bsky.social
Historian (PhD). Writer: Class, Labor, Inequality. Artist. Traveler. Rocker. Seeker. Books: Masterless Men, After Life; NEW: Lillian Smith bio & Film @thecivilwardoc1. IG @kerileighmerritt
@josephhower.bsky.social
Pennsylvanian in Texas. Father of daughters. Labor & politics in Modern America at Southwestern University.
@xlenc.bsky.social
Geographer. California apologist. Writing about prison history, ecology, labor, and capitalism.
@redpgh.com
Dad | DSA | CWA 13000 Pittsburgh left and labor history at redpgh.com Also: British history, wargaming, hobbies galore
@arielmaelambe.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at UConn, among other things. I post about mothering, mental illness, disability, antifascism, labor organizing, education, and occasionally Latin America and the Caribbean. she/her Author: https://tinyurl.com/NBCCI
@arthousedirectr.bsky.social
Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
@emilysteinlight.bsky.social
assoc prof at Penn English (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@cgyaudesphd.bsky.social
Journal of American History copy editor | historian | Indiana University labor history professor | Hoosier Ph.D. / posts are all mine https://academic.oup.com/jah/
@lavaredmonds.bsky.social
Anything I ever do is to avoid doing something else Stanford Economics PhD Student lavaredmonds.com
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@brycecovert.bsky.social
Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com, member of @fspnwu.bsky.social. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
@historianheather.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped. www.heatherannthompson.com
@katherineturk.bsky.social
Writer (Equality on Trial, The Women of NOW), Historian, Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Words in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, LARB, Jacobin, etc. Carrboro NC
@mingerton.bsky.social
Historian @UNC, dad, author, record collector, cat caretaker, born in Buffalo, live in NC.
@ostrovdoktora.bsky.social
Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
@kenhomansj.bsky.social
Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My tweets≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)
@arvandmirsafian.bsky.social
Economic historian at @camhistory.bsky.social. Doing research on historical political economy
@rwldproject.bsky.social
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester. #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
@raepitkin.bsky.social
History PhDing @ CUNY GC: State & Local History, Settler Colonialism, Public History & Historical Memory (20th Century U.S.) • Managing Editor: Gotham Center for NYC History • Programs: Humanities NY (State Council, NEH) • Brooklyn ↔️ Buffalo 💨
@joshkluever.bsky.social
Lecturer at Alvernia University | Studying Socialist State Legislators in the 20th-century US | Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social | Social Media Director for @midwesternhistory.bsky.social | Solidarity Forever🌹
@lucecaroline.bsky.social
American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment UC-AFT Comms crew memorywork.irle.ucla.edu carolineluce.com
@drconvictsandcane.bsky.social
Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
@bonniejin.bsky.social
💪: gen z union girlie 🌳: cambridge ma • sidewalk socialist • she/她 ✍️: writing, designing, reading, walking 🎓: jhu • anthro 🍉
@gmoult.bsky.social
architecture + history // phd candidate researching the slavic midwest
@peelersandsheep.bsky.social
New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
@benmschneider.bsky.social
Research on work, job quality, and technology. Economic history PhD from Oxford. 🗽 in 🇳🇴 sites.google.com/view/benschneider
@riverlys.bsky.social
Historian of race and US cities, Associate Professor at Allegheny College, book in progress on multiracial activism in Philadelphia
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
@mljo.bsky.social
Phd candidate at Harvard University studying the history of slavery in the early 19th c Caribbean. Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
@jonathansjones.bsky.social
Historian at James Madison University | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | Author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans & America’s First Opioid Crisis (preorder: https://tinyurl.com/opiumslavery) | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
@kellybrignac.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History - Atlantic, French Empire, Slavery/Abolition. It's the Gulf of Mexico
@coryjamesyoung.bsky.social
assistant professor of history at UIowa | personal account | northern slavery, legal history, Black America | i ♥️ WNY
@hidehirota.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@sanjukta.bsky.social
Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.
@annetakh.bsky.social
PhD student @USC. US historian in training. History of agricultural/food labor, Méx-US (& other) migration and boundaries in borderlands. Union steward. Formerly at UTokyo. she/her/ella 米国 (農場) 労働史・移民史及び広範に「他者」と「我々」の境界線に関心を持ち研究しています． 📍Tohoku, Tokyo, LA
@georgetownkilwp.bsky.social
The Kalmanovitz Initiative draws on Georgetown's commitment to social justice to develop innovative policy to improve the lives of workers https://linkin.bio/georgetownkilwp
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats
@epi.org
We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank using the tools of economics to defend & promote the interests of workers in economic policy discussions. epi.org Podcast: epi.org/podcast/ Newsletter: epi.org/signup/ Federal Policy Watch: epi.org/policywatch
@ericblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies; author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
@josheidelson.bsky.social
Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
@erikloomis.bsky.social
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
@stefanie-eisenhuth.bsky.social
Historian (ZZF Potsdam, Greifswald University)📍Berlin | interested in the History of Communism, the Cold War, all things GDR and Ukraine. Standing with 🇺🇦
@debsmuseum.bsky.social
1890 home of Eugene V. Debs. A people’s history museum exploring organized labor, socialism, peace, and prison abolition. Donation box http://tinyurl.com/mtw5xjdn Gift shop http://tinyurl.com/yc5t75dt
@jaimecarom.bsky.social
Postdoc in Alt-Right | PhD in History of US Socialism | Discurso en Sumar ➕| @elordenmundial
@davidmarcus.bsky.social
Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@jessicatanner.bsky.social
Associate Prof., UNC-CH. 19th-c French lit, novels, theory, history of sex and sexuality, weather and climate. Minnesotan in NC. First gen. Herder of aged cat. Book: SEX WORK, TEXT WORK (Northwestern UP, 2023).
@jconnellstryker.bsky.social
PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
@contingent-mag.bsky.social
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
@cmarkthiesen.bsky.social
Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History. “Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
@smgonzalezwi.bsky.social
Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.
@drdanielletw.bsky.social
Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
@cslbs.bsky.social
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Department of History, University College London ucl.ac.uk/history/cslbs
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Check my new book: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo229867701.html #slaveryarchive
@eladiobobadilla.com
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
@shannanclark.bsky.social
Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
@shaunrichman.org
Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
@ameyris.bsky.social
Historian. U.S. Labor and Political History. Upstate New Yorker living in Milwaukee. Undergrad at SUNY Geneseo. PhD at GWU.
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics). College professor. Forthcoming book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Fall 2025) Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
@alexfinley.bsky.social
Historian of the U.S. Dog lady. Appalachian. Union member. Writing a lot of different things. I can’t complain but I probably will.
@rtvan.bsky.social
Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
@dunphyalexander.bsky.social
PhD candidate in labor history at UMD. Researching US anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, and anti-war activism in the interwar period. Editorial Assistant at @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social