Italian Hall Tragedy: 100 Years Later
Today, Christmas Eve, 2013, marks the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan, one of the most tragic events in.
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Thinking of Calumet 1913
My husband keeps expressing a hankering to go up to Calumet, Michigan on Christmas eve to commemorate the 73 people, mostly children, who.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 21, 2013
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Gutman Prize Deadline Extension to January 10
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- by Ryan Poe
- December 17, 2013
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A Bright Light in Dark Times: CTU struggle explored in Labor
State University of New York employees are reeling from the union contract negotiated between the faculty union (the United University Professions) and the.
- by Randi Storch
- November 14, 2013
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Race, Class, Labor, and the (Not So) Incognito Controversy
I’ve long appreciated how athletics mirror and shape broader social relations (Consider, for instance, C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary, which famously approached cricket.
- by Clarence Lang
- November 12, 2013
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Let’s Call Tuesday a Victory for the Labor Movement As Well
Labor rights were not on the line during this off-year election cycle, at least in the traditional sense. But there were still some.
- by Elizabeth Shermer
- November 10, 2013
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Jobs With Justice: 25 years of trying to transform Gompersism in the labor movement
These days, successful labor activity among the unorganized seems to depend, in ever greater degree, upon “faith based organizing,” union efforts interfacing with.
- by Paul Buhle
- October 31, 2013
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Bracero Guestworkers, Unpaid
This article was originally published in Jacobin. Every Tuesday, 76-year-old Miguel Díaz spends the better part of the day outside the House of.
- by Adam Goodman
- October 30, 2013
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Back to the Cooperative Commonwealth?
I think a lot about the problems of building a labor movement for the 21st century. And, as a long-time labor activist who.
- by Jonathan Kissam
- October 26, 2013
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Communities Are Worth Fighting For
Last month in Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have required corporate retailers with sales.
- by Randi Storch
- October 21, 2013