A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson
Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace.
- by Randi Storch
- June 8, 2022
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“We Just Want A Democratic Workplace”: Can the NLRB Protect Starbucks’ Pro-Union Workers?
John Logan updates us on the spunky Starbucks workers campaign against the Goliath of union avoidance, asks what the National Labor Relations Board.
- by John Logan
- April 13, 2022
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On the “Trucker” Protests in the U.S. and Canada
“Freedom” is a fickle force, especially when it is expressed in the guise of aggressive flag-waving nationalism. Recent convoys in Canada and the.
- by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
- March 14, 2022
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UNITE HERE, the 2020 Elections and Beyond
Many weeks after Democrats swept the Georgia Senate runoff elections, the right-wing extremists’ January 6th assault on Congress saturated the news cycle. The.
- by Martin Bennett
- October 2, 2021
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm Unless the NLRB upholds Amazon’s recent appeal of a mail-in ballot, almost 6000.
- by John Logan
- February 2, 2021
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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.
- by Sarah Jones
- November 23, 2020
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Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity
Since the 1990s, the percentage of teaching delivered by precarious scholars has increased in Australian universities, like in many other countries. The sector.
- by Hannah Forsyth
- June 26, 2020
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The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave
The global coronavirus pandemic is walloping California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all 40 million residents to ‘shelter in place’ except for.
- by Martin Bennett
- June 22, 2020
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Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay “Remapping the American Left:.
- by James Gregory
- May 6, 2020