UC Graduate Workers and the History of Political Strikes
On Wednesday, May 15, 79% of 48,000 graduate student workers at the University of California who cast their ballots voted to authorize a.
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays
In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.
- by Bob Bruno
- May 29, 2024
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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare/Red Scare
Charisse Burden-Stelly recently published Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. The book offers a radical and interdisciplinary.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- May 3, 2024
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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?
New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.
- by Alan Singer
- April 25, 2024
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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath
Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.
- by Robin Lindley
- April 19, 2024
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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union
On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72.
- by Jacob Remes
- April 9, 2024
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Labor History and History of Science: Better Together
The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts.
- by Seth Rockman
- April 2, 2024
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“A debt paid for abandoned goals”: A Reflection from What Work Is
In recognition of Women’s History Month, I offer the following excerpt from my recently published book, What Work Is. The book is built.
- by Bob Bruno
- March 28, 2024
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On Equal Terms-Gender and Solidarity
I am deeply pleased that Labor has published a review of my interactive digital installation, On Equal Terms: gender & solidarity, and that.
- by Susan Eisenberg
- March 25, 2024
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine
On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of.
- by Leigh Campbell-Hale
- March 20, 2024