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Strike Waves Across the US Seem Big, but the Number of People on Strike Remains Historically Low
Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
by
Judith Stepan-Norris
,
Jasmine Kerrissey
via
The Conversation
on
August 24, 2023
Untangling the 19th Century Roots of Mass Incarceration
Popular accounts often trace the origins of forced penal labor to the post-Civil War South. But a vast system of forced penal labor existed in the antebellum North.
by
Rebecca McLennan
via
LPE Project
on
May 16, 2023
The Banana King Who (Tried to) Put People Over Profits
1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.
by
Matt Garcia
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
April 26, 2023
partner
How Government Helped Create the “Traditional” Family
Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Arianne Renan Barzilay
via
JSTOR Daily
on
April 12, 2023
UVA and the History of Race: Confronting Labor Discrimination
The UVA president’s commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation were established to find and tell the stories of a painful past.
by
Dan Cavanaugh
via
UVA Today
on
March 18, 2023
Growing New England's Cities
What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?
by
Garrett Dash Nelson
via
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
on
March 17, 2023
The Myth of the Socially Conscious Corporation
The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.
by
Meagan Day
via
The New Republic
on
January 27, 2023
When Panama Came to Brooklyn
“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”
by
Kaysha Corinealdi
via
Public Books
on
November 30, 2022
Freight-Halting Strikes Are Rare, and This Would be the First in 3 Decades
Some rail unions are resisting government pressure to accept a new employment contract, but history suggests the authorities will keep the trains running.
by
Erik Loomis
via
The Conversation
on
November 22, 2022
Our Segregation Problem
The consequences of racial separation are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
by
Aziz Rana
via
Dissent
on
October 5, 2022
"Which Side Are You On, Boys..."
Watching the Ken Burns series on the U.S. and the Holocaust and thinking about American folk music.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
October 3, 2022
Light Under a Bushel: A Q&A with Eric Foner
“It’s important to study history if you want to be an intelligent citizen in a democracy.”
by
Eric Foner
,
Nawal Arjini
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 17, 2022
What We Want Is to Start a Revolution
Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 28, 2022
The 1877 Class War That America Forgot
In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.
by
Ryan Zickgraf
via
Jacobin
on
July 3, 2022
Redefining the Working Class
The diminished status of the non-white working class is not a matter of accident, but of design.
by
Shamira Ibrahim
via
The Baffler
on
May 3, 2022
Afeni Shakur Took on the State and Won
Pregnant and facing decades in prison, the mother of Tupac Shakur fought for her life — and triumphed — in the trial of the Panther 21.
by
Tashan Reed
via
Jacobin
on
November 18, 2021
The History of the United States as the History of Capitalism
What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism?
by
Steven Hahn
via
The Nation
on
November 1, 2021
“We’ve Always Had Activists in Our Communities”
May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.
by
Mae Ngai
,
Jilene Chua
via
Public Books
on
October 13, 2021
When Did Jesus Become a Capitalist?
How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?
by
Steve Teare
via
The Nib
on
July 19, 2021
Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021
What do the two events really have in common?
by
John Ganz
via
Unpopular Front
on
July 15, 2021
The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City
On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
by
Gabriel Winant
,
Nick Serpe
via
Dissent
on
March 18, 2021
partner
Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans
The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.
by
Rebecca Brenner Graham
via
Made By History
on
March 4, 2021
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
October 19, 2020
‘The Road to Blair Mountain’
It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.
by
Jim Branscome
via
The Daily Yonder
on
October 1, 2020
Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy
Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.
by
Shawn Gude
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2020
Our Chief Danger
The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.
by
William Hogeland
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 1, 2020
The Free and the Brave
A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.
by
Bill Donahue
via
The Atavist
on
August 24, 2020
The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.
by
Rebecca Onion
,
Christina Wolbrecht
via
Slate
on
June 16, 2020
partner
One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression
“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”
by
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 20, 2020
Bad Romance
The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
by
Alyssa Battistoni
via
Dissent
on
April 13, 2020
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