Emily Twarog on her new book, Politics of the Pantry
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Emily E. LB. Twarog’s Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food,.
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Calling Luther to a Labor Ethic
October 31, 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s defiant act of protest against the Church. What does this distant anniversary.
- by Ken Estey
- October 4, 2017
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Race AND Class, Then and Now
Just a few days after white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, my husband and I went to see Kathryn Bigelow’s film, Detroit. Set amid.
- by Sherry Linkon
- September 15, 2017
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Valuing a Lost Work Culture
Late last fall I visited Stoke-on Trent, a city in the North-West of England which was once the epicentre of the UK’s huge.
- by Tim Strangleman
- September 1, 2017
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home.
- by Helen Diana Eidson
- August 19, 2017
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Imagine If Migrant Workers Had Labor Rights
Women in migration are not ‘vulnerable,’ in need of ‘rescue’—they are advocates and agents of change. Current migration policies must be changed from.
- by Tula Connell
- August 19, 2017
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Nativism Needs Fake History
Stephen Miller is the latest clone of Ann Coulter offered the public by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Mark Lausewww.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/history/fac_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=MjY4Mjk%3D
- by Mark Lause
- August 14, 2017
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The Dual Economy
In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class, MIT economist Peter Temin provides a short and accessible take on this country’s deeply unequal.
- by Victor Tan Chen
- August 10, 2017
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The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think
To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored.
- by Katie Wells
- August 8, 2017
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My.
- by Keri Leigh Merritt
- July 17, 2017