CIO Era Labor Lawyers
We have a few brief summaries of panels and papers from the Labor and Working Class History Association conference, June 2025. In this.
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The Laundry Workers’ Uprising: The Fight to Build a Democratic Union in the Twentieth Century
Jenny Carson profiles some of the dynamic early leaders of the New York laundry workers union uprising of the 1930s, and how their.
- by Jenny Carson
- May 4, 2022
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AFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary
Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose.
- by Jennifer Eidson
- March 2, 2016
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The More Things Stay the Same: Lessons from 1934
It has been 81 years since the workers of the Toledo Electric Auto-Lite Company went on strike. A modest but extremely profitable auto.
- by Brad Sommer
- June 17, 2015
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Ferguson and Emerson Electric: The Paradox of Imperial Reach
Six weeks following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Emerson Electric Chairman and CEO, Michael Farr, unveiled the corporation’s $1.5.
- by Henry Berger
- December 19, 2014