Book Reviews

Minnesota’s Civil Rights Advocacy Reshaped the Nation I grew up politically influenced by my grandmother, Hylda Levin. She was a huge fan of Hubert Humphrey so I became one as well. I used to describe myself as a Hubert Humphrey<br> Read More »

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor film was more influential than Salt of the Earth. This pioneering docudrama was made two decades earlier by<br> Read More »

If we are lucky enough, we are shown poetry and given the chance to scribble out lines starting when we are very young. What could the notion of a memoir be? Still, though, there’s the option for artists and poets<br> Read More »

How Enviros Challenge American Values As the United States undergoes record heat waves, floods and other lethal weather events, the Trump Administration just spent $129 million to stop new solar and wind facilities. The nation’s president treats climate change as<br> Read More »

A Powerful Account of Veterans’ Resistance Veterans are among the many constituencies harmed by the Trump Administration. Yet the negative impact of Trump policies on vets has not gotten enough attention. Trump’s team talks about helping vets while doing the<br> Read More »

Review of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, by Joe Uehlein. Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a foreword by Si Kahn, is pretty solid evidence that the author has music world friends of<br> Read More »

The Rise of a Socialist Mayor Forty-five years ago, a socialist, who previously couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Vermont, walked into his state’s largest city hall and claimed the office of mayor by a landslide margin of ten votes.<br> Read More »

Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.) Six years ago, Labor Notes ran a contribution to its popular “Steward’s Corner” column by Ellen David-Friedman, a long-time labor educator and<br> Read More »