Long-Haul FALL 2025 | ISSUE 04
Long-Haul FALL 2025 | ISSUE 04
Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.
Common Notions is proud to assist in their sales and distribution.
EDITORIALS
We Will Not Retreat to the Shadows
Editorial Collective
SHOPTALK
I’ve Been a Jackal: Stories from the Back-of-House
Chicago Restaurant Workers, with Alexandra Michaud
WORKER INITIATIVE
The Rise and Fall of Barboncino Workers United
Brendan O’Connor
ON MOTHERHOOD AND LABOR ORGANIZING
Strikes and Aftershocks: A PhD, Motherhood, and The Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz
Rebekkah Dilts
Generational Strike: Reflections on Motherhood and Collective Struggle
Luling Osofsky
TRANSMISSIONS
Coffee and Hernias, Cotton and Death: The Bay Area Waterfront Writers and Artists, 1977–1994
Erfan Moradi and Nicholas Anderman
The Breakthrough of June 1968: Guido Bianchini at the National Student and Worker Conference in Venice
Ferruccio Gambino, translated by Dylan Davis
Review of Franklin Rosemont, Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture
Hank Kennedy
WEB SUPPLEMENT
T-Bone! Review of The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim
Paul Buhle
LETTERS
Letters to the Editors
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Zach Hicks and Stefan Yong are managing editors of Long-Haul. Its editorial collective includes Jack Davies, Dylan Davis, Jane Komori, Ben Mabie, Sarah Mason, Alexandra Michaud, Lucy Peterson, Matt Ray, and Sara Sukhun. Patrick King is a contributing editor.
Design is by Sara Sukhun. The logo, a metal type sort, is a nod to the history of type and print culture in the labor movement.



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Long-Haul is a quarterly magazine of worker writing about culture and organization on and off the shop floor, past and present, in and outside of unions.
Common Notions is proud to assist in their sales and distribution.
TRANSMISSIONS
Little Scraps and Memory: Lineages of Workers’ Inquiry in the United States
Patrick King
SHOPTALK
Nada Se Construye Sin Estas Manos
(Nothing Is Built Without These Hands)
Alexandra Thyme
We Feel It from the Warehouse Floor: Amazon’s Immigrant Workers Under Attack
Lula Valentine
Liquid Assets: How the Maquiladora System Built the World’s Most Profitable Blood Business
Sam Russek
WORKER INITIATIVE
If You Don’t Like the Smell, Blame It on Cherelle: The Philadelphia Municipal Strike of 2025
Dan Dedomenico
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike
John Cruickshank, with other members of the New York Times Tech Guild
LETTERS
Letters to the Editors