Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive
Karen Sieber tells us of the effort to honor the memory of slain union organizer Ella May Wiggins and the struggle for power.
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
The Odyssey of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial
Editor: On March 25, 2023 a new memorial will be placed at the site where 123 women and 23 men garment workers, mostly.
- by Mary Anne Trasciatti
- March 24, 2022
Film & Video
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Nightmare Alley and Tented Entertainment Workers
At the 2022 Oscars, Guillermo del Toro’s remake of Nightmare Alley could win four awards for its portrayal of life in a Great.
- by Andrea Ringer
- March 22, 2022
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On the “Trucker” Protests in the U.S. and Canada
“Freedom” is a fickle force, especially when it is expressed in the guise of aggressive flag-waving nationalism. Recent convoys in Canada and the.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- March 14, 2022
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Kaisha Esty on Black Women and Girls Battle over Labor and Sexual Consent
Kaisha Esty’s marvelous essay “‘I Told Him to Let Me Alone, That He Hurt Me’: Black Women and Girls and the Battle Over.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 11, 2022
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Not Your Father’s Anti-Union Movement: Ten Key Facts About Starbucks’ Union Avoidance Law Firm, Littler Mendelson
Since winning two NLRB elections at Buffalo stores last December, the remarkable Starbucks Workers United union campaign has now spread to well over.
- by John Logan
- March 7, 2022
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I Am Not a Writer
Bob Rossi’s poem “Deincarnation” was published in December 2021’s Labor: Studies in Working Class History. He’s graced us with another. I Am.
- by Bob Rossi
- February 24, 2022
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Teaching Blog
2 New Teaching Labor’s Story Units: Women’s Rights are Labor Rights
What do labor history and movements for women’s rights have in common? Check out the new additions to the Teaching Labor’s Story.
- by Nikki Mandell
- February 23, 2022
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The Fight for $20 and a Union: Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake?
CA is Leader in Higher Wage Movement California is the epicenter for a nationwide grassroots movement to raise the wage floor for American.
- by Martin Bennett
- February 19, 2022
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Japanese Americans were Incarcerated Workers (and Strikers) in World War II
“Protest” or “hunger strike?” Officials at the Robert N. Davoren complex (R.N.D.C.), a jail part of the Rikers Island correctional facility, have offered.
- by Stephanie Hinnershitz
- February 11, 2022