Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay “Remapping the American Left:.
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Covid-19, the Halifax Explosion, and Crises of Care
One of the first principles of critical disaster studies is that disasters exist not as time-out-of-time, but as embedded in the times and.
- by Jacob Remes
- May 5, 2020
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OpEd
Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions
New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones
- by William Jones
- April 23, 2020
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Labor and COVID-19: An International Perspective
How can we examine COVID-19 crisis from a global labor perspective? Several hundred people tuned in on April 9, 2020, for a discussion.
- by Lisa Philips
- April 21, 2020
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NYC’s LGBTQIA Community Has Organized, Against Death, Again
An injury to one is an injury to all. A service to one is a service to all. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic,.
- by Caroline Propersi-Grossman
- April 18, 2020
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OpEd
When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 17, 2020
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John Prine’s “Grandpa Was a Carpenter”
The great John Prine, a victim of the coronavirus last week, spent a career penning and performing songs about his own death, many.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 14, 2020
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Class, Capitalism, and Coronovirus at Disney’s Newest Attraction
Last week the Coronavirus forced Disney to announce that its American parks are now closed indefinitely, resulting in the longest interruptions of any.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- March 31, 2020
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Class and the Challenge of COVID-19
COVID-19, the coronavirus that is spreading across the world, is wreaking havoc on working people and their families. Weeks after it burst onto.
- by Joseph McCartin
- March 19, 2020
Book Roundtable
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Boris Roundtable: The Author Responds
A real pleasure of academic exchange is to engage with readers who “get” one’s book. In their distinct ways, Chaumtoli Huq, Sarah Lyons,.
- by Eileen Boris
- March 12, 2020