Labor History
Labor History

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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..

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Labor History 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..

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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.

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Labor History 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.

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East Side Freedom Library

Happy Labor Day! I want to call our project — the East Side Freedom Library — to your attention. We are three years.

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It’s Time to Fire the “Union Boss”: Here’s Why

In case natural disaster, nuclear war, and unpredictable political leaders are not enough to keep us up at night, we remain under threat.

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