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Rebellion to Tyrants, Democracy for Workers, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY (2012)

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The Anti-Union Offensive, ‘Right-to-Work,” and Labor’s Response, NEW LABOR FORUM (2012)

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Madison Is Our Cairo, MRZine (2011)

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Not Your Parents’ Minnesota: Immigration Politics in a Supposed Liberal Bastion (with Doug Rossinow), Dissent (2010)

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Hormel Strike a Key Event in Nation's Labor History, MRZine (2010)

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Minnesota Nurses Association Provides Rx for Union Revival, MRZine (2010)

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You Can’t Care for Patients with Bayonets: Lessons From History, MRZine (2010)

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La Greve de Hormel (1985-1986), Echanges et Mouvement (2009)

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The Reel Watts: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, New Labor Forum (2008)

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Immigrant Rights Are Labor Rights: Postville and the Lessons of the Hormel Strike, Dollars and Sense (2008)

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When Human Beings Are Illegal, Against The Current (2008)

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Call and Response: The Future of the Strike [symposium], New Labor Forum (2003)

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Is the Strike Dead?, New Labor Forum (2003)

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Lynching and Racial Violence, Z Magazine (2002)

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Lynching Then and Now, CounterPunch (2002)

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They Say Give Back, We Say Fight Back: The Legacy of the Hormel, Dollars and Sense (2001)

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Globalization and Union Democracy, International Socialist Review (2001)

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The Current Crisis of the South African Labor Movement, Labour/ Le Travail (2001)

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Why Participation? Lessons from the Past for the Future: A response to Charles Hecksher's article, "Participatory Unionism", Labor Studies Journal (2001)

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On the Ground with the South African Labor Movement, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies (2000)

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Rupture or Continuity, New Politics (2000)

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Unbroken Mirror: One Hundred Years of the St. Paul 'Union Advocate' (with Barb Kucera), Labor's Heritage (1998)

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Understanding Legacies, Understanding Possibilities (with Michael Denning), Labor History (1998)

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Cram Your Spam: Remembering the Hormel Strike, The Baffler (1997)

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The More Things Change: The AFL-CIO, The Baffler (1997)

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Solid State, MInnesota Monthly (1996)

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The Quest for Rail Labor Unity, Canadian Dimension (1995)

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State of the Unions: Improving, Utne Reader (1994)

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Peering into the Crystal Ball: The Future of the US Labour, Canadian Dimension (1994)

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The Future in the Present: The Work of C.L.R. James, Monthly Review (1994)

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A Page from History? Seeds of a Labor Resurgency, The Nation (1994)

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Derailed -- But Not Defeated, Z Magazine (1991)

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USA: 1991 Rail Strike, Echanges/Exchanges (1991)

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Art and Activism in the American Labor Movement, Artpaper (1991)

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'Members in Good Standing': Richmond's Community of Former Slaves, 1865-1873, Virginia Cavalcade (1989)

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'Members in Good Standing': Richmond's Community of Former Slaves, 1865-1873 [Continued], Virginia Cavalcade (1989)

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Two Decades of the 'New' Labor History, American Quarterly (1989)

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Hard Times for Hormel: Meat Packers Lead U.S. Labour, Canadian Dimension (1986)

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Keeping Minneapolis an Open-Shop Town: The Citizens' Alliance in the 1930s (with Lois Qualm), Minnesota History (1986)

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Starving amidst too much: & other IWW writings on the food industry (with L. S. Chumley, Jim Seymour, and Jack Sheridan) (2005)

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Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement (1993)

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Black labor in the South: Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1890 (1984)

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Marxism and council communism : the foundation for revolutionary theory for modern society (1976)

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Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible, By These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor (2002)

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Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison of the Hormel, A South African and American comparative reader : the best of Safundi and other selected articles (2001)

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Introduction, A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903 - 1947 (2001)

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Readjusters, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (2001)

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Richmond: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid Associations, Organizing Black America : An Encyclopedia of African American Associations (2001)

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Syllabus for History 30: Women and Work in U.S. History, What We Hold in Common: An Introduction to Working Class Studies (2001)

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Seeds of a Labor Insurgency: Change and Continuity, U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working Class Struggles and Insurgency (2000)

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The Dynamics of ‘Americanization’: The Croation Fraternal Union Between the Wars, 1920s-1930s, Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class Experience (1998)

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The Failure of Minnesota Farmer-Laborism, Organized labor and American politics, 1894-1994 : the labor-liberal alliance (1998)

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Organizing "wall-to-wall" : the Independent Union of All Workers, 1933-1937, Unionizing the jungles : Labor and community in the twentieth-century meatpacking industry (1997)

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Richmond, Virginia, Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history (1996)

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The Croatian Fraternal Union, Radicalism, and the American Labor Movement, Etnicni fraternalizem v priseljenskih dezelah = Ethnic fraternalism in immigrant countries (1996)

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The Independent Union of All Workers: Community-Based Unionism, "We are all leaders" : the alternative unionism of the early 1930s (1996)

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The Rebirth of Minnesota's Labor Movement, Interpreting American culture : a regional approach (1992)

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American Labor in the 1980s, Within the shell of the old: essays on workers' self-organization : a salute to George Rawick (1990)

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series 3: Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 (edited by Steven Hahn et al), Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (2010)

Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters (by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy Drescher), New Labor Forum (2010)

Asinimali: The Crisis in South African Higher Education (edited by Richard Pithouse), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics (2010)

There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality (by Philip F. Rubio), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics (2010)

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Review of: Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power and How to Get It Back, Labor History (2007)

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Review of: Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, by Jennifer A. Delton, Journal of American History (2003)

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Review of: When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures, by Sheila Smith McKoy, Labour/ Le Travail (2003)

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Review of: Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917, by Elizabeth Sanders, American Studies (2002)

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Review of: Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, by James Green, Annals of Iowa (2002)

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Rethinking Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture: Review of: Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946, by Bill V. Mullan, Callaloo (2000)

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Review of: Silent skies: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, by Willis J. Nordlund, International Labor and Working-Class History (2000)

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Recollecting Racism: Review of: Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy, Reviews in American History (2000)

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Review of: Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography (2000)

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Review of: Struggling with 'Iowa's Pride': Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877, by Wilson J. Warren, Minnesota History (2000)

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Review of: 'Negro and White, Unite and Fight!' A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90, by Roger Horowitz, Journal of Social History (1999)

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Review of: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Socialism, Labor History (1999)

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Review of: Where Is Our Responsibility? Unions and Economic Change in the New England Textile Industry, 1870-1960, by William F. Hartford, American Historical Review (1999)

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Review of : The House Servant's Directory, or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising Hints on the Arrangements and Performance of Servants' Work, by Robert Roberts, Labor History (1998)

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Review of: Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, by John A. Salmond, American Studies (1998)

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Review of: Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland, by James J. Lorence, Labour/ Le Travail (1998)

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Review of: Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality, by Rick Halpern & Roger Horowitz, Journal of American History (1997)

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Review of: Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929, by Dana Frank, American Studies (1997)

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Review of: Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky, by Shaunna L. Scott, Indiana Magazine of History (1997)

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Review of: At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People, by Marie Tyler-McGraw, Journal of Southern History (1996)

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Review of: Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990, by Daniel Nelson, Annals of Iowa (1996)

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Review of: Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings, by Bruce Nissen, Indiana Magazine of History (1996)

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Review of: History of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America, 1894-1994, by Ivan Cizmik, Journal of American History (1996)

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Review of: John L. Lewis: Hard Labor and Wild Justice, by Ron E. Roberts, Annals of Iowa (1996)

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Review of: Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge, by Charles B. Dew, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography (1995)

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Review of: Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87, by Lawrence M. Lipin, Indiana Magazine of History (1995)

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Review of: God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh, by George Teamoh, Journal of American History (1994)

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Review of: Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays, by Howard N. Rabinowitz, Indiana Magazine of History (1994)

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Review of: Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers, by Michael K. Honey, Journal of Southern History (1994)

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Review of: The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States, by Bruce E. Kaufman, Labour/ Le Travail (1993)

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Review of: Administering the Taylor Law: Public Employee Relations in New York, by Ronald Donovan, Business History Review (1993)

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Review of: Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923, by Eric Arnesen, Journal of Southern History (1992)

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Review of: Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960, by Crandall A. Shifflett, Annals of Iowa (1992)

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Review of: Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915, by Loren Schweninger, Business History Review (1992)

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Review of: In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia, by Earl Lewis, Journal of American History (1992)

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Review of: At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, by William Cohen, History: Review of New Books (1992)

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Review of: Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, by Lizabeth Cohen, American Historical Review (1991)

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Review of: A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916-1921, by David J. Goldberg, Labour/ Le Travail (1991)

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Review of: The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913, by Steve Golin, Labour/ Le Travail (1991)

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Review of: Labor in Illinois: The Affluent Years, 1945-1980, by Milton Derber, Annals of Iowa (1990)

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Review of: Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870-1900, by Bruce C. Nelson, Labor/ Le Travail (1990)

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Review of: Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890, by Michael Chesson, Maryland Historical Magazine (1990)

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Review of: Union Brotherhood, Union Town: A History of the Carpenters' Union of Chicago, 1863-1987, by Richard Schneirov & Thomas J. Suhrbur, Annals of Iowa (1990)

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Review of: Andrew Johnson: A Biography, by Hans L. Trefousse, Pennsylvania History (1990)

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Review of: Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History and Analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, by Joseph F. Wilson, Labor History (1990)

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Review of: The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925, by David Montgomery, Minnesota History (1989)

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Review of: Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class, by Herbert G. Gutman, American Quarterly (1989)

Minnesota’s Iron Range and the Struggle for Democracy, Minnesota Humanities Commission, “Lunch and Learn” Program (2010)

Looking at the Workplace Through a Labor Historian’s Lens; Power, Technology, and the (Re)Organization of Work, Midwest Center For Occupational Health and Safety (2010)

Neoliberalism, Post-Fordism, the Workplace, and the Crisis of Safety and Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety Graduate Research Seminar (2010)

Pulling the Strings of Race: The Buffalo Historical Marionettes of the Federal Theater Project, Michigan State University, Labor Studies Program and African & African American Studies Department (2010)

"The Financial Crisis and the Global South: A Labor Perspective," Teach-in on the Financial Crisis and the Global South, University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (2008)

Unpacking the Past: Learning History Through a Song, History/Philosophy annual banquet (2008)

Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Past, Present, and Future of Minnesota's Labor Movement, annual David Noble Lecture, University of Minnesota American Studies Department and the Minnesota Historical Society (2008)

Art, Culture, and Government: The New Deal at 75 (with Beth Cleary), Refiguring and Representing Race: The Jubilee Singers of the Buffalo Historical Marionettes (2008)

"Peter Rachleff: Labor Historian," (interview), ARTIST AND INFLUENCE, XXVII (2008)