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David Witwer on Murder in the Garment District

David Witwer and Catherine Rios recently published Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States. It tells of racketeering...

Betrayal: A Critical View of the Government Takeover of the Teamsters

Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union, a recent (2019) documentary by George Bogdanich, asks critical questions about the decades long oversight of the Teamsters by the federal...

National Park Service Fall Webinar Series – Monumental Labor: Landscapes of Work and Struggle

Monumental Labor is a three-part public event series and podcast that explores the memory of work and working peoples in National Parks and affiliated sites through their representation in monuments...

“Jovita Idar: A Texas Labor, Education, and Anti-lynching activist”

“The obrera recognizes her rights, proudly raises her head and joins the struggle, the time of her degradation is over, she is no longer a slave sold for some coins,...

Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City

Donald Rogers recent book Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO (2020) reminds us of the terrific struggles that workers endured against policing, and...

Revolt at John Deere — Ties to a Radical Past

Below Toni Gilpin tells a pictured story of John Deere workers radical past, a story that connects to the recently launched John Deere strike. The Midwest holds a hidden memory...