Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history Randi Storch
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Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett
For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality.
Teaching Blog
Bringing Humanity to Progressive Era Tragedies: Teaching Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix’s historical novel Uprising provides a valuable resource for those of us interested in engaging our students in their real-life drama
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A Bright Light in Dark Times: CTU struggle explored in Labor
State University of New York employees are reeling from the union contract negotiated between the faculty union (the United University Professions) and the
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Communities Are Worth Fighting For
Last month in Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have required corporate retailers with sales
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Teaching about Collective Bargaining–the case of Flint Michigan
This summer I had the privilege of co-coordinating an NEH Landmark grant at one of the Great Camps in the Adirondacks. Over a
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Sharpen Your Pencils and Your Pitchforks
The battle against teachers and their unions seemed to crescendo last year during Chicago’s teacher strike. The mainstream media had a field day
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President Obama’s Budget Proposal Addresses Wealth Inequality in America: Just Kidding
President Obama presented his budget proposal in the face of sequestration, the effects of which are slowly making their way into federal programs
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Drones for Democracy?
All week I’ve been glued to coverage regarding our drone policy and the leak of documents rationalizing U.S. government policies surrounding their use.
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Gompers Redux? or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?
I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on