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Ben Fletcher and Local 8: the Mural and the Marker

Get PDF of this article Ben Fletcher might be the most important African American labor leader you’ve never heard about. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Fletcher led 4,000 dockworkers out...

“Illinois Teachers and the Fight for Labor Rights”: Free Essay available

Get PDF of this article The essay related to this blog is offered free for the next three months.-Ed. What can be learned from the past struggles to win labor...

Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History

Get PDF of this article In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective facts with a distorted...

Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression

Get PDF of this article Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great Depression episodes...

Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor

Get PDF of this article “When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth...

Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s

Get PDF of this article by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s “Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s” is...