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Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess”

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.

The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1867.

The Tacoma Method

How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
Right to work states highlighted on a map.
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The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.

What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.
Striking miners

A Culture of Resistance

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.

America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude

It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.
Dolores Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.

Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta

Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.

The Factory in the Family

The radical vision of Wages for Housework.

Reading the Soil

On the job with a pair of men who dig up bodies for a living.
Trump speaks to auto workers.
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Donald Trump Wants to Take Republicans Back to Their Roots

The GOP was once the party of protectionism, while the Democrats led the way on free trade.

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
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Infrastructure is Good for Business

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?
Firefighters trying to put out the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911.

How Poor, Mostly Jewish Immigrants Organized 20,000 and Fought for Workers Rights

These women came ready to fight.

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

A New Struggle Coming

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.
Female medics during the 1918 pandemic.

How the Devastating 1918 Flu Pandemic Helped Advance US Women's Rights

With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.

Carter G. Woodson’s West Virginia Wasn’t ‘Trump Country,’ It Was a Land of Opportunity

In his travelogues, Woodson rhapsodized over what he saw as a love of democracy among hard-scrabble mountain settlers of both races.

This Is Helen Keller’s 1932 'Modern Woman'

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”
Painting of peasants and landlords on Yuri's Day

How American Slavery Echoed Russian Serfdom

Russian serfdom and American slavery ended within two years of each other; the defenders of these systems of bondage surprisingly shared many of the same arguments.

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

Sex, Pong, And Pioneers

What Atari was really like, according to the women that were there.

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

The Kids Aren’t Alright

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.

When Deregulation is Deadly

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

Before #MeToo: The Long Struggle Against Sexual Harassment at Work

An interactive timeline recounts the movement to end sexual harassment.

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