Worker Portraits: Contradictions and Contingency
Paintings and sculptures often represent those with power, not the working class. Yet, a current exhibit at Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery, “The.
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Labor History Today: January 14-20, 2018
This week’s labor history: Dr. Martin Luther King and organized labor; John F. Kennedy guarantees federal workers the right to join unions; how.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 25, 2018
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A Special Relationship? A public exhibition about ties between British and American labour from the TUC Library
The Trades Union Congress Library is about to open a new exhibition, Labour’s Special Relationship?, about historic ties between the British and American.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 9, 2018
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Join Us in Celebrating and Sustaining the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum has just finished its third year open in Matewan, and what a year it was. Louis Martin
- by Louis Martin
- December 22, 2017
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Hope in the Heartland: The Struggle for Public-Sector Collective Bargaining in Iowa
In November 2016, Iowa Republicans erased a slim Democratic majority in that state’s Senate, giving the party “trifecta” control of both houses of.
- by Colin Gordon
- November 15, 2017
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GOP Law Fails to Break Iowa’s Largest Public-Sector Unions
One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 8, 2017
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Labor Song of the Month
Greetings from the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, where we are actively building our online presence with original content..
- by Daniel Graff
- October 30, 2017
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OpEd
The media still gets the working class wrong — but not in the way you think.
This will be the first Labor Day since America rediscovered its working class — or, more accurately, one part of its working class..
- by Lane Windham
- September 11, 2017
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Karl Marx Makes a Comeback
Several months ago the Communist party in Russia updated their visual propaganda by giving three of their most controversial icons—Lenin, Stalin, and Karl.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- September 7, 2017
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New Book Interviews
Lane Windham on her new book: Knocking on Labor’s Door
Lane Windham’s new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, was officially.
- by Jacob Remes
- September 5, 2017