UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes
On Wednesday, May 15, 79% of 48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California who cast their ballots voted to authorize a.
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays
In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.
- by Bob Bruno
- May 29, 2024
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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare
Charisse Burden-Stelly recently published Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. The book offers a radical and interdisciplinary.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- May 3, 2024
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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?
New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.
- by Alan Singer
- April 25, 2024
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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath
Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.
- by Robin Lindley
- April 19, 2024
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Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
Beginning with the new Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Julie Greene assumes editorship of the journal. Maia Silber interviewed her for the.
- by Maia Silber
- April 17, 2024
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Reporting Work
A significant source for “Science as Routine” (available for free for the next three months) in the recent issue of Labor on history.
- by Jonathan Victor Baldoza
- April 15, 2024
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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union
On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72.
- by Jacob Remes
- April 9, 2024
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’Whence Automation’: An Interview
In this interview, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein speaks with Salem Elzway (USC) and Jason Resnikoff (Univ. of Groningen), co-authors of the article “Whence.
- by Alex Lichtenstein
- April 5, 2024
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Labor History and History of Science: Better Together
The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts.
- by Seth Rockman
- April 2, 2024