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Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.

In the midst of the secession crisis, Unionists accused slave traders of waging an assault on democracy.

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.

Berea College has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.

A decade after the crash of 2008, a growing movement has thrust our prolonged housing crisis to the center of the national agenda.

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.

The decline of America’s rural health system and its toll on my family.

A review of four books that all deal with the long-lasting contradictions between the mythology and reality of farming.

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.

Giving in millions has a way of erasing harm done in billions.

A look at what caused the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, despite its grotesque consequences.

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?

We've all heard about Black Power, but what about Teacher Power–a teachers' rights movement recently reawakened?

Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.

When the blazing sun came up on the teenagers' first day of work, "everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?'"

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.

How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

Competition among media companies is crucial to democracy.

Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.

On breast-feeding, Trump is following the Reagan formula.

Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies built a corporate proto-culture that continues to influence the company today.