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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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Peter Cole, “Behind the Longshoremen’s Strike Threat,” The Progressive, December 29

“Just days before year’s end, a growing chorus of retailers, manufacturers, and conservative politicians called on President Obama to invoke a notorious anti-union.

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A Dialogue on History of Capitalism vs. Labor History

Jefferson Cowie (JC): Academic disciplines and their subfields are always in some kind of “crisis,” it seems, but for labor history that crisis.

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Gompers Redux? or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?

I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on.

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Report on Lansing: anti-RTW Protest 12-11-12

On December 11 around 13,000 trade unionists and their allies gathered outside the capitol building in Lansing, Michigan to protest anti-union “right-to-work” legislation..

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Democracy on the Defensive in Michigan

I started my research on right-to-work laws almost ten years ago, when these decades-old statutes seemed a dead issue with no millennial saliency.

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