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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

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.

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LaborOnline

“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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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Labor History LaborOnline

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

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.

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LaborOnline

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.

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Labor History LaborOnline

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:.

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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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