New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s
“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression. As a widely popular participatory song, it.
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Working 9 to 5
Ever wonder if it’s safe to bring an artichoke to lunch when you’re trying to convince someone to speak up on the job?.
- by Ellen Cassedy
- August 2, 2022
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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico
At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico,.
- by Sonia Hernandez
- July 21, 2022
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New Book Interviews
Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest.
- by Alex Lichtenstein
- June 17, 2022
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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson
Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace.
- by Randi Storch
- June 8, 2022
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The Road Not Taken: Pearl McGill and the Promise of Inclusive Unionism, 1894-1914
The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Janet K. Weaver’s essay.
- by Janet Weaver
- May 31, 2022
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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their.
- by Jenny Carson
- May 4, 2022
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“We Just Want A Democratic Workplace”: Can the NLRB Protect Starbucks’ Pro-Union Workers?
John Logan updates us on the spunky Starbucks workers campaign against the Goliath of union avoidance, asks what the National Labor Relations Board.
- by John Logan
- April 13, 2022
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A Victory for Hope: A Note about the ALU Victory with References
It has been an exciting weekend for the North American labor movement with the Amazon Labor Union victory taking centre stage – adding.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- April 4, 2022
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What’s Old is New Again: Some Initial Thoughts on the Amazon Workers Victory
In the past twenty years, I have been told time and again about how it is nearly impossible to organize Amazon, Starbucks, Wal-Mart.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 4, 2022