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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.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1

This recent issue of the Labor: Studies in Working Class History features a terrific essay “Did Emmett Till Die in Vain? Organized Labor.

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LaborOnline

100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan

This post was originally published in 2013. Today, Christmas Eve, 2013, marks the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan,.

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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”

This is an English translation of a review first published https://commonware.org/recensioni/vite-di-commessi-elettori-le-elezioni-americane-e-la-middle-class ) Sarah Jones reviews The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger “Once.

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LaborOnline

Essential or Expendable? Working in Higher Education during COVID-19

This is the first in a series of essays on “Higher Ed Wall-to Wall in Tennessee,” which will continue for the rest of.

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LaborOnline

The Contagion and a Cure

Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today..

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LAWCHA

Jimmy Hoffa: Symbol of a Bygone Era

Jimmy Hoffa used to say he’d be forgotten ten years after his death. This was an uncharacteristically unintelligent judgment. Forty-four years after his.

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LAWCHA

The Red Scare and Radical Unionism

One hundred years ago this November, a small army of federal agents, backed by police and vigilantes, launched the first of a series.

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LAWCHA

Research on Graduate Assistants & Right to Unionize Challenges NLRB proposed rule

On November 20, 2019, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of.

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LaborOnline

Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor

2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Knights of Labor, the most important labor movement of the Gilded Age. It is worth thinking.

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