Workers’ Worth: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
Today we continue our roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published from.
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A Roundtable Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished : Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
Today we begin a week-long roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published.
- by Eileen Boris
- August 10, 2020
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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.
- by Ahmed White
- November 29, 2019
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Wobblies Repressed as (almost) None Others
Paul Buhle’s review of Dean A. Strang, Keep the Wretches In Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department and.
- by Paul Buhle
- August 5, 2019
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Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
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When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)
Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.
- by James Gregory
- May 5, 2016
Labor History
Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists
How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his.
- by Chad Pearson
- December 1, 2015
Labor History
Standing Up for a House of Labor–the Debs Home in Terre Haute
In 1968, on the corner of the campus of Indiana State University, there sat a small home. Previously a member of Terre Haute’s.
- by Wesley Bishop
- May 26, 2015
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On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 17, 2014
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The Courts vs. Teacher Unionism
Teachers unions have faced some of the most challenging legal strictures in U.S. history. Before public collective bargaining employment laws, teachers effectively were.
- by Justin Law
- May 23, 2014