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The Past and Future of the American Strike
A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.
by
Richard Yeselson
via
The Nation
on
March 21, 2019
America’s Missing Labor Party
The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by
David Sessions
via
The New Republic
on
October 2, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later
Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.
by
Michael K. Honey
via
The Nation
on
April 3, 2018
A New Struggle Coming
On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.
by
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
via
n+1
on
March 5, 2018
Organized Labor’s Lost Generations
American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
The Nation
on
February 7, 2018
Street Fighting Woman
A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.
by
Eric Foner
via
New York Review of Books
on
December 21, 2017
When Labor Day Meant Something
Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.
by
Chad Broughton
via
The Atlantic
on
September 1, 2014
May Day's Radical History
The date of Occupy's strike has ties to the eight-hour day movement, immigrant workers and American anarchism.
by
Jacob Remes
via
Salon
on
April 30, 2012
How the “AFL-CIA” Undermined Labor Movements Abroad
During the Cold War, the AFL-CIO actively participated in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.
by
Jeff Schuhrke
,
Cal Turner
,
Sara Van Horne
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2024
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
via
In These Times
on
August 30, 2024
Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets
In the 20th century, American Communists were seen as an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with complex lives that deserve to be chronicled.
by
David Bacon
via
Jacobin
on
August 15, 2024
How and Why American Communism Failed
Plus: One historian’s about-face on the Communist record.
by
Ronald Radosh
via
The Bulwark
on
August 2, 2024
Forces of Labor: The Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage has not risen in over 15 years. We analyze why.
by
Esha Krishnaswamy
via
Historic.ly
on
July 26, 2024
A Return to Gompers
Sean O’Brien’s speech at the RNC may represent a return to nonpartisan realpolitik for unions. But does that reflect labor's strength or its decline?
by
Dustin Guastella
via
Jacobin
on
July 17, 2024
What We Get Wrong About White Workers
Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.
by
Chris Maisano
,
Stephanie Ternullo
via
Jacobin
on
July 9, 2024
America’s Best Made-Up Person
On the transformation of Mary Harris into Mother Jones.
by
Garry Wills
via
Mother Jones
on
June 20, 2024
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Sordid Mercantile Souls
When labor found a common cause — and enemy — with the abolition movement.
by
Sean Griffin
via
HNN
on
May 21, 2024
May Day is a Rust Belt Holiday
Forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and plants of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
by
Ed Simon
via
Belt Magazine
on
April 29, 2024
Talking “Solidarity” With Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.
by
Astra Taylor
,
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
,
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
via
The Nation
on
April 23, 2024
Acid Rhythms
A look at the psychedlic-inspired music scene of Detroit.
by
William Harris
via
n+1
on
April 10, 2024
Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit Park Honors Labor and Environmental History
On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.
by
Paul Draus
via
The Conversation
on
April 2, 2024
How Unions Are Made
A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us the story of the United Farm Workers and how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.
by
Juan Ignacio Mora
via
The Nation
on
March 19, 2024
The Forgotten Lessons of Truly Effective Protest
Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.
by
Astra Taylor
,
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
via
The Guardian
on
March 14, 2024
How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever
40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.
by
Keith Kelleher
via
The Forge
on
February 13, 2024
Fragile Juggernaut
Introducing a project on US labor history, exploring what we can learn from 1930s-1950s industrial struggles.
by
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
via
n+1
on
January 24, 2024
Reimagining Resistance, Reconstructing Community
Farmworker housing cooperatives in Ventura County, California.
by
Frank P. Barajas
via
Tropics of Meta
on
January 12, 2024
On the New Book, "Hillbilly Highway"
Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.
by
Max Fraser
,
Joseph Rathke
via
LaborOnline
on
December 15, 2023
Bayard Rustin Showed the Promise and Pitfalls of Coalition Politics
Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.
by
Chris Maisano
via
Jacobin
on
December 9, 2023
When Black and White Tenant Farmers Joined Together to Take on the Plantation South
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing.
by
David Griscom
via
Jacobin
on
December 5, 2023
Hard Times
The radical art of the Depression years.
by
Rachel Himes
via
The Nation
on
November 27, 2023
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