Who We Are

We are a collaborative of labor and working-class historians, labor studies and labor relations scholars, labor activists, and supporters. We are dedicated to the preservation of the history of working people and their movements in all of their diversity from the era of slavery and colonialism down to the present day.

Our Team

Our project is administered by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor at Georgetown University, but is collaboratively led and shaped by a diverse community of scholars, activists, and supporters. Among the scholarly advisors to the project are:

Eileen Boris, University of California at Santa Barbara
Steven Brier, City University of New York
Patrick Dixon, Georgetown University
Crystal Feimster, Yale University
Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University
Leon Fink, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
Sergio González, Marquette University
Jim Gregory, University of Washington
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
Toby Higbie, University of California at Los Angeles
Michael Honey, University of Washington Tacoma
Michael Innis-Jiménez, University of Alabama
Thai Jones, Columbia University
William P. Jones, University of Minnesota
Nick Juravich, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Peter B. Kaufman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, emerita
Susan Levine, University of Illinois Chicago
Mireya Loza, Georgetown University
Nikki Mandell, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University
Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
Shelton Stromquist, University of Illinois, emeritus
Joe William Trotter Jr., Carnegie Mellon University