A Tale of Two Futures: The Fate of the Dollar General Economy
Dollar General is everywhere. The most visible manifestation, of course, is the proliferation of their concrete block stores littering the landscape. But it’s.
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Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor
When I heard over breakfast that Billy Graham had died, the news ricocheted around my mind and stirred up lots of memories. The.
- by Ken Estey
- March 13, 2018
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How Might We Teach the History of Labor Journalism?
“The Labor Beat,” the new issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History guest-edited by Max Fraser and me, focuses on labor journalism’s past.
- by Christopher Phelps
- March 13, 2018
Film & Video
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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.
- by Lane Windham
- March 12, 2018
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People
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
Activism
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Lecturers on Strike
University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education. Eric Fure-Slocumwp.stolaf.edu/history/people/fure-slocum-eric/
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- February 26, 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
Labor History
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Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement
Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.
- by Andrew Tillet-Saks
- February 15, 2018
Labor History
Labor History Today: Week of February 4, 2018
Union City’s Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- February 12, 2018
Labor History
Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue
Liz Faue’s new book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement, is our field’s newest attempt to reinterpret U.S. Labor History. I asked her a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 8, 2018