Peter Cole

By Labor Jawn In this interview episode, Sam and Gabe sit down with Dr. Peter Cole, author of “Ben Fletcher:…

By Africa World Now Report The IWW was born in 1905. On January 2, 1905, several dozen people identifying as…

By Working Class History Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser…

By Peter Cole Jacobin An interview with Peter Olney US labor union density is at historic lows, and multinational corporations…

By Herb Boyd Amsterdam News February 16th, 2023 Many years ago when this column launched, one of the first profiles…

By Robert Ovetz Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 One of the hardest tasks for an historian of the working…

By Zinn Education Project Time Periods: World War I: 1910 – 1919 Themes: Labor, Organizing, Social Class On May 14,…

By Adam McNeil New Books Network In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian…

By Against the Grain He’s one of the most important African American leaders you’ve probably never heard of: Ben Fletcher…

By Jeff Stilley H-Net September 2021 Native-born working-class Black radicalism in the United States during the 1910s-20s is a challenging…