CLAS affiliate, Nicole Burrowes, participated in an engaging and well-attended panel titled “New Research on Empire and Labor in the Americas and Beyond” at the American Historical Association's annual meeting in Chicago in January. Burrowes discussed her book Seeds for Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana, which explores the historical possibility of a movement forged by those at the edges of empire amid economic, political, and environmental crises, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in July 2026. Panelists included Mary Hicks, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Justin F. Jackson, and Rudi Batzell, and it was moderated by Daniel Immerwahr. They discussed the complex significance and evolving historiography of the relationship between empire and labor, marking the 10th anniversary of the influential work, Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism. The panel was sponsored by the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
