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.
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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
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LAWCHA
Former LAWCHA President Nancy MacLean Testifies in Senate Hearing
I was invited by Senators Whitehouse and Stabenow and the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to open a hearing entitled “After Janus v..
- by Nancy MacLean
- July 18, 2018
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Teaching Blog
New Teaching Labor’s Story Guide: Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970
Nick Juravich’s new TLS guide is an op-ed written by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin on the signing of the first union contract.
- by Nick Juravich
- May 8, 2018
Labor History
Margo Price, “Pay Gap”: Labor Song of the Month
While Margo Price’s concerns are political through and through, she isn’t hosting any pity parties. Many of her songs rock, countering the sobering.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 16, 2018
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Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement
Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.
- by Andrew Tillet-Saks
- February 15, 2018
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Labor History Today: Week of February 4, 2018
Union City’s Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene. Rosemary Feurerwww.laborhistorylinks.org
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 12, 2018
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Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue
Liz Faue’s new book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement, is our field’s newest attempt to reinterpret U.S. Labor History. I asked her a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 8, 2018