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How Black Pullman Porters Waged a Struggle for “Civil Rights Unionism”
Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.
by
Eric Arnesen
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Arvind Dilawar
via
Jacobin
on
July 28, 2020
What’s New About Free College?
The fight over free education is much older than you think.
by
Jay Swanson
via
Current Affairs
on
July 8, 2020
partner
The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests
Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
by
Richard Schneirov
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HNN
on
June 21, 2020
The United States Has a Long History of Mutual Aid Organizing
On the roots of the community-based model that reemerged in the COVID era to counter the absence of adequate state support.
by
Maya Adereth
via
Jacobin
on
June 14, 2020
Stymieing the People
A Review of "Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square."
by
Thai Jones
via
The Metropole
on
June 3, 2020
The Lessons of the Great Depression
In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.
by
Lizabeth Cohen
via
The Atlantic
on
May 17, 2020
A Brief History of the Gig
The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.
by
Veena Dubal
via
Logic
on
April 27, 2020
Remnants of the New Deal Order
We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
Dissent
on
April 13, 2020
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
The Nation
on
January 21, 2020
How the Labor Movement Built New York
A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.
by
Nick Juravich
via
The Nation
on
December 10, 2019
Friends of SNCC and The Birth of The Movement
The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.
by
Ethan Scott Barnett
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The Metropole
on
December 10, 2019
The United Farm Workers in Florida Citrus, 1972–1977
If labor organizers learned anything from decades of small victories and stubborn failures in the U.S. South, it was that interracial unions were hard work.
by
Terrell Orr
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Southern Cultures
on
December 4, 2019
Did the New Deal Need FDR?
His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
November 11, 2019
partner
Why the Massacre at Centralia 100 Years Ago is Critically Important Today
Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.
by
Steven C. Beda
via
Made By History
on
November 9, 2019
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
by
Adam Hochschild
via
The New Yorker
on
November 4, 2019
The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right
Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
by
Peter Keating
,
Shaun Assael
via
Politico Magazine
on
November 3, 2019
The Greensboro Massacre at 40
Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by
Rosalyn Pelles
,
Jordan T. Camp
via
Boston Review
on
November 1, 2019
Docking Stations
A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.
by
Peter Cole
,
Arvind Dilawar
via
The Smart Set
on
October 7, 2019
The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America
The 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force, but its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing.
by
Shawn Gude
,
Jack Altman
via
Jacobin
on
October 1, 2019
Reviving the General Strike
Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
by
Mark Engler
via
The Nation
on
September 1, 2019
State of the Unions
What happened to America’s labor movement?
by
Caleb Crain
via
The New Yorker
on
August 26, 2019
The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.
by
Chase Burghgrave
,
Laura Weinrib
via
Jacobin
on
July 25, 2019
When Socialists Swept Milwaukee
Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won’t be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
by
Lindsey Anderson
via
Belt Magazine
on
May 21, 2019
When King was Dangerous
He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by
Alex Gourevitch
via
Jacobin
on
January 21, 2019
Mainframe, Interrupted
A member of the 1960s-70s collective Computer People for Peace talks about the early days of tech worker organizing.
by
Joan Greenbaum
,
Jen Kagan
via
Logic
on
January 7, 2019
The Limits of Liberal History
You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by
Nathan J. Robinson
via
Current Affairs
on
October 28, 2018
partner
The Militant Miners Who Exposed the Horrors of Black Lung
This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.
by
Jessie Wright-Mendoza
,
Alan Derickson
via
JSTOR Daily
on
September 25, 2018
The League of Revolutionary Struggle and the Watsonville Canning Strike
More than anything else, the Watsonville Canning strike was a fight against national oppression.
by
Peter Shapiro
via
Viewpoint Magazine
on
August 30, 2018
How (or How Not) to Build a Labor Movement
Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.
by
Jake Pitre
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 22, 2018
Lessons From the Gilded Age
America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?
by
Sarah Jones
via
The New Republic
on
June 13, 2018
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