Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation. The United Teachers of New Orleans.
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Issues of Labor
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“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update
We are glad to take this article from behind a paywall link at the Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and are grateful.
- by Gordon Mantler
- December 8, 2020
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird uses the events around John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to weave a fictional tale incorporating some.
- by Mark Lause
- November 27, 2020
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”
This is an English translation of a review first published https://commonware.org/recensioni/vite-di-commessi-elettori-le-elezioni-americane-e-la-middle-class ) Sarah Jones reviews The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger “Once.
- by Sarah Jones
- November 23, 2020
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New Book Interviews
Aaron Goings on his new book: The Port of Missing Men
In his fascinating new book, Aaron Goings interrogates the legend of Billy Gohl (1873-1927), a union official accused of dozens of murders. He.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 14, 2020
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United Campus Workers of South Carolina
In the spring of 2019, workers at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) organized after a controversial university Presidential search highlighted campus-wide dissatisfaction.
- by Stephanie Riley
- October 9, 2020
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Who should “rule at home”?
Early in September, Polk County Iowa District Judge Jeffrey Farrell ruled that state officials had the right to overrule local school boards in.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- September 24, 2020
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New Book Interviews
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors
A People’s History of Life and Labor in the San Gabriel Valley: An Interview with authors and editors of East of East: The.
- by Nick Juravich
- September 17, 2020
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New Book Interviews
Ryan Pettengill on his new book, Communists and Community . . .in Detroit
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Ryan Pettengill, author of the new book,.
- by Randi Storch
- September 3, 2020
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New Book Interviews
Alexandra Finley on Her New Book, An Intimate Economy
Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Alexandra Finley, author of the new book.
- by Jacob Remes
- August 31, 2020