LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History
The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality,.
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Does the History of Labor Struggles Really Mandate a Vote for Joe Biden?
In this essay, Ahmed White argues that the recent profiling of the GM Strike of 1936-1937 as a model for the potential of.
- by Ahmed White
- May 25, 2020
LaborOnline
The Contagion and a Cure
Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today..
- by Mark Lause
- May 18, 2020
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Labor & Working Class Cultural Picks to Click
One of my favorite quotes from Mother Jones is “Sit Down and Read. Educate Yourself for the Coming Conflicts.” While she had a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 13, 2020
Labor History
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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:.
- by James Gregory
- May 6, 2020
LaborOnline
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
LaborOnline
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
LaborOnline
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
LaborOnline
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