Annie, as she was known to her co-workers at a men’s clothing company, was a 12-year-old Russian Jewish…

Helen Ramirez–Odell has written a book containing 86 stories, brief and extended, based on interviews of Chicago school…

Dr. Alice Hamilton wanted to take on the problem of industrial poisoning. When she began her work in…

Thousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life…

This is the story of a small group of women iron miners who took on a Minnesota mining…

Carolyn Eastwood tells the stories of three people living in Chicago with immigrant roots.

Harmon Lisnow knew that writing was not the typical pursuit of a steelworker when he invited 25,000 steelworkers…

Erem has worked in the union movement for the past dozen years as an organizer, a union rep,…

This book examines the ongoing threat and reality of violence in its many forms and how that violence…

Ehrenreich in this book calls attention to the millions of Americans working full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages.