“Behind Every Worker is a Family,” by Wendy Z. Goldman
In Buenos Aires, I spoke to a crowded auditorium of 700 workers, students, and faculty. Workers came from the Lear plant, from the
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Labor History
Registration open for the Australia-US Comparative Labour History Conference
Historians and other scholars have long recognized both similarities and differences in the labour experience in Australia and the United States. Both countries
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Australia-US Comparative Labour History Conference
January 8-9, 2015. The University of Sydney, Australia. This conference aims to bring together historians and scholars interested in exploring the comparative and
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Letter to Marissa Mayer Encouraging Living Wages at WalMart
The Time for a Raise Campaign at the Center for Study of Responsive Law is sending a sign-on letter to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo
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John McNay, “Attack on public school teachers seems like sour grapes”
In the United States, right-wing politicians have diligently worked to defund public education. Republicans have often done this in two major ways. They
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John McNay, “Senate Bill 5 remains an emblem of Kasich’s extreme agenda”
As Ohio voters consider whether to give John Kasich another four years as governor this November, they might want to revisit his first
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John T. McNay, “12 moments in Cincy labor history”
The Cincinnati labor community is nearly as old as the city itself and very much a part of the fabric that makes up
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Anna Lane Windham, “Making a living while black” (Baltimore Sun, 8/30/2014)
Though we’ve narrowed the racial divide since the days of segregation, the economic divide between whites and blacks has been remarkably persistent for
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Colin Gordon, A Map To The Roots Of Ferguson’s Civic Unrest, on NPR
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/26/343484238/a-map-to-the-roots-of-fergusons-civic-unrest Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950,
Issues of Labor
Labor 11.3 (Fall, 2014)
In This Issue The Common Verse Hugh Martin, “Iraq War, 2004” LAWCHA Watch James N. Gregory, “Advancing the Ivory-Collar/Blue-Collar Partnership” Up for Debate