“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update
We are glad to take this article from behind a paywall link at the Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and are grateful.
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”
This is an English translation of a review first published https://commonware.org/recensioni/vite-di-commessi-elettori-le-elezioni-americane-e-la-middle-class ) Sarah Jones reviews The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger “Once.
- by Sarah Jones
- November 23, 2020
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A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932
An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to.
- by James Gregory
- July 1, 2020
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Teaching Blog
Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story
Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New.
- by Nikki Mandell
- May 30, 2020
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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
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Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast
Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey, on “What Happened to Martin Luther.
- by Michael Honey
- April 23, 2020
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The Inside Story of a Shirtwaist Factory: Teaching Labor’s Story Update
Clare Lemlich has provided a new teaching resource for Teaching Labor’s Story. It is a primary source material lesson plan involving a magazine.
- by Nikki Mandell
- January 11, 2020
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Sanders or Warren? Populist-Progressivism or New Deal? Take Your Pick!
Political commentators regularly identify both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as populists. Labor historian Leon Fink dives into the debate over their roots..
- by Leon Fink
- November 13, 2019
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New Book Interviews
Dawson Barrett on His New Book, The Defiant
Joseph Walzer recently interviewed Dawson Barrett on his new book, The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America, a book that looks at the.
- by Joseph Walzer
- October 31, 2018
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The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy
Jonathan Kissam, historian and Communications Director for United Electrical Workers Union, digs into the past for some ideas for the future, in a.
- by Jonathan Kissam
- September 5, 2018