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Goldfield Roundtable: Was Another Course Possible for Steel Workers?

This is our second entry for this week’s roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in.

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Roundtable on Michael Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Civil Rights & Democracy

Today we begin a roundtable discussion on Michael Goldfield’s new book, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s..

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Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere in print and on screen

Patrick Dixon explores the class elements of Little Fires Everywhere, a novel and Hulu miniseries.

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Philip Rubio on his New Book, Undelivered

Our series of interviews of authors of news books in labor and working-class history continues. Philip F. Rubio’s latest book, Undelivered: From the.

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The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave

The global coronavirus pandemic is walloping California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all 40 million residents to ‘shelter in place’ except for.

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Black Women Demand Reparations and the Right to Live Free

BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) women leaders have for centuries been stitching our community stories into the US tapestry to correct.

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Lachlan MacKinnon on his new book, Closing Sysco

June 11 is Davis Day, a holiday originating in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, that honors the martyrs of the labor movement. It marks.

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George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism

George Floyd’s public viewing will be held this afternoon at The Fountain of Praise Church in southwest Houston. A private funeral service will.

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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.

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