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Senator Harkin comments on Obama’s labor problem

Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) comments  about President Obama’s State of the Union Address seemed to be channeling one of this blog’s recent commentaries.

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Some Thoughts on Retrying the Haymarket Martyrs

Editor’s note: The conservative journal National Review recently gave this blog and the journal Labor: Working Class History of the Americas a blast.

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Austerity Saturdays from the Postal Service

It’s Saturday February 9th as I write this. Every postal worker knows by heart their first official day of work as their “anniversary.

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Drones for Democracy?

All week I’ve been glued to coverage regarding our drone policy and the leak of documents rationalizing U.S. government policies surrounding their use..

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Visualizing Labor History

Labor and working-class historians ought to be thinking a lot more about interesting methods of data visualization. The internet is full of fascinating.

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LAWCHA Board Election Results, 2013

The results of the LAWCHA 2012-2013 Board Elections are in. We thank all participants and look forward to working with the new members.

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Teaching Working-Class Literature in Labor History Courses

Labor Notes conducted an informal survey of labor activists, asking them about their favorite class-conscious novels. The range of works was pretty interesting.

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Solidarity? Whatever—Obama’s Forgotten Social Movement

President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, progressive? Maybe. But only if you are one of the liberals who have forgotten this nation’s working class..

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PATCO strike of 1981: Reflections on Joseph McCartin’s Collision Course

In the wake of the continued disasters for workers rights in the last few years and the recent release of statistics suggesting that.

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Lane Windham, “If not unions, then what?,” Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2013

LAWCHA member and University of Maryland College Park graduate student Lane Windham has published an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun entitled “If.

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