Heather Booth – Changing the World: New Film Available on Women’s and Civil Rights Activist
Do you have activist students who have questions about how best to build a life around making social change? Do you want to.
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Labor and the Long Seventies
In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack..
- by Chris Brooks
- March 5, 2018
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New Book Interviews
Keisha Blain on Her New Book, Set the World on Fire
LaborOnline’s monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the.
- by Jacob Remes
- February 19, 2018
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LAWCHA Election Results
Election chair Nancy Gabin has reported the results of the LAWCHA election. To start with, more members voted than in any previous election..
- by Ryan Poe
- February 8, 2018
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Uber, the “Metropocalypse,” and Economic Inequality in D.C.
Public transit infrastructure in Washington, D.C. is crumbling. Metro and bus services have been cut. Fares have gone up. And, safety remains a.
- by Katie Wells
- February 7, 2018
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Winning Working-Class Voters with State Level Consumer Protection
Donald Trump’s election, made possible in part by his ability to capture the hearts, minds, aspirations, and votes of working-class men and women,.
- by Marc Dann
- February 6, 2018
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The Polk School – Women’s Leadership Development and Labor Extension
In 1988, the Labor Education Program (a labor studies extension school) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- February 6, 2018
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New Book Interviews
Jessica Ziparo on her new book, This Grand Experiment
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Jessica Ziparo’s new book, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the.
- by Jacob Remes
- January 24, 2018
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Making America White Again: Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio
Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio, former Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, was a major set-back for immigrant and human rights activists who.
- by Mary Romero
- January 9, 2018
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Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines
On November 16, 2017, thousands of construction workers walked off their job sites to march through central Sydney in protest against laws designed.
- by Sarah Attfield
- December 15, 2017