Aimee Loiselle on Her New Book, Beyond Norma Rae
The Hollywood Movie Norma Rae defined working class women’s experiences in the wake of neoliberalism. The film launched Sally Field into a cultural.
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Trump’s Policies are Killing his Voters
Coal Country is MAGA Country. In the coal producing regions of Appalachia, Donald Trump received almost three-fourth of the votes in each of.
- by Alan Singer
- July 9, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani and the History of Municipal Socialism
The stunning victory of self-identified “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic Party primary has sent a shock wave through the.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- June 30, 2025
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Springfield, Illinois Marker Honors Black Union Activist
On June 17, 2025, an official Illinois historical marker that highlights the experiences and activism of Black coal miners in Illinois was dedicated.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 26, 2025
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Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker
Ben Fletcher might be the most important African American labor leader you’ve never heard about. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Fletcher led 4,000.
- by Peter Cole
- June 19, 2025
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“Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights”: Free Essay available
The essay related to this blog is offered free for the next three months.-Ed.What can be learned from the past struggles to win.
- by Joseph Rathke
- June 2, 2025
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Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History
In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective facts with.
- by Elizabeth McKillen
- May 1, 2025
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Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression
Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great.
- by Randi Storch, Dana Frank
- April 25, 2025
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Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor
“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth.
- by Alan Singer
- April 22, 2025
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Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s
by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia HillsPhilip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930sThe cover of the newly designed Labor: Studies in.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- April 15, 2025