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.
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New Book Interviews
Building Solidarity: The Passaic Textile Strike (1926 Film)
Labor Online interviewed Jacob Zumoff about his new book, The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike last year. In the course of the.
- by Jacob Zumoff
- January 21, 2022
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New Book Interviews
Toni Gilpin on Her New Book, The Long Deep Grudge
Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland details the long.
- by Randi Storch
- October 12, 2021
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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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Labor History
Jews in the Labor Movement: Past, Present and Future
Think of the greatest strikes in US labor history. Apart from the garment workers’ strikes in New York and Chicago before World War.
- by Bennett Muraskin
- October 2, 2016
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Workers Memorial Day and Earth Day: Links in a Chain
The waning days of April have a little recognized convergence, inviting us to think about connections between workers issues and environmental concerns.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 28, 2015