Jeffrey Sklansky

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Jeffrey Sklansky Jeffrey Sklansky is a professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago and a member of UIC United Faculty, the labor union representing the bargaining units of Tenure/Tenure-Track and full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago.

WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 05: A member of Sheet Metal Workers Local 105 walks in the annual Labor Day Parade hosted by the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition on September 5, 2022 in Wilmington, California. Around 5,000 were expected to attend the event, which was held amid an Excessive Heat Warning issued by the National Weather Service for most of Southern California through September 7. Labor Day was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1882 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 05: A member of Sheet Metal Workers Local 105 walks in the annual Labor Day Parade hosted by the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition on September 5, 2022 in Wilmington, California. Around 5,000 were expected to attend the event, which was held amid an Excessive Heat Warning issued by the National Weather Service for most of Southern California through September 7. Labor Day was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1882 in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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