Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality
Author Colin Gordon’s book, Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality is an online textbook that uses historical and economic analysis to.
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Bill Barry Interviewed about May Day
Lucky Crosby, Chief Shop Steward, AFSCME Local 467 and Labor Historian Bill Barry discuss the history and current state of Baltimore’s workers movement..
- by Ryan Poe
- May 2, 2014
Labor History
OpEd
Peter Rachleff, “Telling – and considering – ‘Untold Stories'”
April and May 2014 mark the fifteenth year that the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, with the support of labor and.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 23, 2014
Labor History
Bill Williamson: Hobo, Wobbly, Communist, On-to-Ottawa Trekker, Spanish Civil War Veteran, and Photographer, by Kara Sievewright
Extensively researched by Kara, the story grows out of two letters Williamson wrote in the 1980s and two interviews with him recorded by.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 18, 2014
Global Affairs Articles
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Barry York, “From the Oral History collection: Issy Wyner”
Issy Wyner was born at Paddington, Sydney, in 1916 and grew up in the Rozelle-Balmain area. The interview with him was recorded for.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 18, 2014
Labor History
60th Anniversary Celebration of “Salt of the Earth”, Silver City, NM (March 15)
On Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Silver City, NM a group of workers and citizens will come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 13, 2014
Labor History
New Labor History Comics: Battle of Ballantyne Pier; Flint Strike
Many thanks to Julie Smith of Trent University for passing this along. The Graphic History Collective (GHC) is pleased to announce the online.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 7, 2014
Labor History
Traveling Exhibit: “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964”
Bittersweet Harvest, a moving new bilingual exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) and circulated by SITES, examines the.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 7, 2014
Labor History
Pete Seeger, A Voice for Social Justice (1919-2014)
LAWCHA remembers legendary folk singer and activist, Pete Seeger, who passed away on January 27, 2014. Seeger captivated multiple generations of activists through.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 5, 2014
Activism
Labor History
Donations Needed to Restore the Mother Jones Monument
I often hear from trade unionists who stop at Mother Jones’ gravesite and monument in Mount Olive, Ill., (just off Highway 55, about.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 19, 2014