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LaborOnline

Did your professor make you uncomfortable? There’s a law for that!

Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University, analyzes Indiana’s new law, SEA 202. The law, due to go into effect in June calls DEI (Diversity,.

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LaborOnline

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.

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Labor History LaborOnline

Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement

Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.

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LAWCHA

Don’t Blame Youngstown

The elites who turned a blind eye to an economic cataclysm are now blaming the victims. John Russo

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LAWCHA

Working on the Verge of “Campus Carry”

One of several nightmarish outcomes of Kansas' swing to the Tea Party Republican right following the presidential election of Barack Obama, the state.

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Labor History

The Right to Work, the Right to Carry, and the Right to Shoot

Cleveland's long history of guns is connected to anti-worker repression.

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LAWCHA

Eyes off the Prize: Liberals in the Postwar Era

Thomas Edsall’s recent New York Times op-ed on the failure of Democrats to engage as effectively as Republicans in state-level politics parenthetically surfaces.

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Teaching Blog

Paraprofessional Educators and Labor-Community Coalitions, Past and Present

Public education today is at the center of an unrelenting assault on the American labor movement. This is no accident; by some measures,.

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LAWCHA

Doing the Employer’s Dirty Work?: Thinking about the History of Anti-Unionism from “Below” after the UAW’s Defeat in Chattanooga

Historians should think carefully as they ponder the meaning of the UAW defeat in Chattanooga. Some analysts write as though a full-fledged co-determination.

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LAWCHA

Volkswagen, Chattanooga and the Long History of Union Avoidance

A number of Tennessee’s politicians and business leaders are baffled and frustrated that autoworkers at Chattanooga’s sizable, $1 billon Volkswagen plant may force.

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