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Teaching Working-Class Literature in Labor History Courses

Labor Notes conducted an informal survey of labor activists, asking them about their favorite class-conscious novels. The range of works was pretty interesting.

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Solidarity? Whatever—Obama’s Forgotten Social Movement

President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, progressive? Maybe. But only if you are one of the liberals who have forgotten this nation’s working class..

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PATCO strike of 1981: Reflections on Joseph McCartin’s Collision Course

In the wake of the continued disasters for workers rights in the last few years and the recent release of statistics suggesting that.

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Lane Windham, “If not unions, then what?,” Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2013

LAWCHA member and University of Maryland College Park graduate student Lane Windham has published an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun entitled “If.

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Was Herbert Hill, NAACP’s Labor Secretary, an FBI informer?

Was Herbert Hill–the Labor Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 25 years known for his fierce.

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“Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom”: Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people converged at the Lincoln Memorial in a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The.

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Alex Lichtenstein on Marikana: A View From the Mountain and a Case to Answer

In the September 1 edition of LARB, historian Alex Lichtenstein examined the background of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana, looking closely.

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Anthony DeStefanis Board Profile (Correction from Official Ballot)

I, Ryan Poe, mistakenly left off two full paragraphs of Anthony DeStefanis’ bio on the LAWCHA board member election ballots. Myself and the.

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Linda Gordon, “Juicing up the labor movement? Try speaking to women’s issues,” UAW News, December 27, 2012

On Dec. 11 Michigan passed two right-to-work laws, one for public and one for private employees. As even our president said, they mean.

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