Japanese Americans were Incarcerated Workers (and Strikers) in World War II
“Protest” or “hunger strike?” Officials at the Robert N. Davoren complex (R.N.D.C.), a jail part of the Rikers Island correctional facility, have offered.
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New Book Interviews
Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
Lisa Phillips spoke to Jenny Carson about her new book, A Matter of Moral Justice, on Black.
- by Lisa Philips
- September 29, 2021
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop Saturday, May 22 Session B: 10:45 – 12 PST/12:45-2 CST/1:45-3 EST Are you committed to bringing labor and.
- by Nikki Mandell
- May 17, 2021
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“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.
- by Gordon Mantler
- December 8, 2020
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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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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