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A “Death” the Whole World Should See

I saw a fascinating documentary recently at a local film festival. The name of it is “A Band Called Death,” and it is.

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Labor historian Bob Korstad on “why I chose to be arrested”

On May 6, Bob Korstad joined civil rights activists, 2 former presidents of the Organization of American Historians and other concerned citizens to.

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Howard Zinn’s Greatest Error

Shortly after Howard Zinn’s death in January 2010, the Occupy movement took to the streets, many of its most vocal proponents brandishing his.

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History of Capitalism Summer Camp, Cornell University

July 14-25. Join 25 other historians and get the skills you need to understand economic theory, interpret quantitative sources, make sense of corporate.

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Postindustrial Noir: Assessing The Wire

Editors Note: Duke University Press allows us free access to one selected journal article or forum published in each issue of Labor: Working.

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Sharpen Your Pencils and Your Pitchforks

The battle against teachers and their unions seemed to crescendo last year during Chicago’s teacher strike.  The mainstream media had a field day.

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Workers’ Memorial Day Reflections

As I write this it’s Workers’ Memorial Day, an event that barely gets a blip on the media screens. But it brought to.

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Expertise Needed: Inter-Union and Federation-Level Organizing: New and Forgotten Methods

The AFL-CIO has formed a committee of labor historians to prepare a document to help them think about the future of organized labor..

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