Nelson Lichtenstein, “No More Saturday Marches,” Jacobin
The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women’s Strike lies in organizers’ willingness to halt business as usual.
OpEd
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OpEd
Nelson Lichtenstein, “Obamacare’s Other Benefit,” LA Times OpEd
“If it is done right, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) may well promise uninsured Americans a lot more than cheap, reliable medical care. It can also open the door to the democratic empowerment of millions of poor people, who
Issues of Labor
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’Whence Automation’: An Interview
In this interview, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein speaks with Salem Elzway (USC) and Jason Resnikoff (Univ. of Groningen), co-authors of the article “Whence Automation: The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept” published in Labor’s recent special issue on Labor
LaborOnline
Two Decades of LABOR History: An Interview with Leon Fink
Editors note: LAWCHA members will be receiving an abbreviated version of this essay in the 2022 newsletter. We are glad to be able to post the entire interview with Leon Fink, retiring editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History
Film & Video
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David Witwer on Murder in the Garment District
David Witwer and Catherine Rios recently published Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States. It tells of racketeering and union corruption in 20th century New York, when unions
Program
Program Digital version Registration May 20-28 Exhibitors Publishers Zoom Info Requires Registration PDF Program Download the PDF version here! Program design and layout by Program design & layout: Michelle Montbertrand How do I join? Once you register, and again prior
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Program Digital version Registration May 20-28 Exhibitors Publishers Zoom Info Requires Registration Exhibitors Duke University Press Duke University Press is the publisher of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, the official journal of LAWCHA. As a site for both historical research
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The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
RWDSU Critics Have Misrepresented the Facts and Missed the Point Ever since the RWDSU’s election lost to Amazon in the most-watched union campaign in decades, we have heard from celebrity-seeking “organizing experts,” most of whom weren’t in Alabama, didn’t speak
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Working Class in American History Series: A Perspective From the African-American Field
We continue our commentaries about the important contributions and critical reviews of the remarkable Working Class in American History Series, which is celebrating its 40th year in 2018. The series began when labor history as a field was beginning to