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The Forgotten History of the US's African American Coal Towns
One of the US's newest national parks has put West Virginia in the spotlight, but there's a deeper history to discover about its African American coal communities.
by
Stephen Starr
via
BBC News
on
October 24, 2022
Just Beans
What was ethical consumption under capitalism?
by
Malcolm Harris
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The Drift
on
October 20, 2022
Riding with Du Bois
Railroads—in the Jim Crow South just as in today’s Ukraine—employ physical infrastructure to create racial divisions.
by
Manu Karuka
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Public Books
on
October 18, 2022
Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution
Describing the experiences of radicals who lived in, traveled to, or found themselves in Mexico between 1910 and 1920.
by
Christina Heatherton
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Boom California
on
October 12, 2022
Empathy in the Archive: Care and Disdain for Wet Nursing Mothers
The complex story of wet nurses and their children in the time before the advent of baby formula.
by
Anna K. Danziger Halperin
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Nursing Clio
on
October 11, 2022
The Promise of Freedom
A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.
by
Elias Rodriques
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The Nation
on
October 3, 2022
Reading Betty Friedan After the Fall of Roe
The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.
by
Tis Lyz
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Men Yell At Me
on
September 21, 2022
The Sick Society
The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.
by
Malcolm Harris
,
Kathryn Olivarius
via
n+1
on
September 2, 2022
Bad Money and the Chemical Arts in Colonial America
Was coining a heinous offense that underminined public trust in currency, or a creative solution to the shortage of specie across the Atlantic world?
by
Zachary Dorner
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Commonplace
on
August 9, 2022
The 1877 St. Louis Commune Was a Landmark Event for the International Workers’ Movement
The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.
by
Mark Kruger
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Jacobin
on
July 31, 2022
Who Digs the Mines?
A new book recognizes the global character of Asian exclusion.
by
Andrew Liu
via
London Review of Books
on
July 13, 2022
A Big Tent
The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.
by
Nicholas Lemann
via
The Nation
on
July 11, 2022
Bittersweet Harvest
The long and brutal journey of the yam.
by
Rosa Colón
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The Nib
on
June 27, 2022
The “Wobblies” Documentary Reminds Us Why Bosses Are Still Scared of the IWW
The recently rereleased 1979 film can teach today’s workers how to throw their weight around.
by
R. H. Lossin
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The Nation
on
June 16, 2022
Work the Lazy Way
On Annie Payson Call’s advice to tired nineteenth-century workers.
by
Lily Houston Smith
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
May 31, 2022
The Robber Baroness of Northern California
Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.
by
Maia Silber
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The New Yorker
on
May 30, 2022
A People’s History of Baseball
Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.
by
Peter Dreier
,
Michael Arria
via
Jacobin
on
May 25, 2022
The Long Crisis on Rikers Island
A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.
by
Brendan O'Connor
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The Baffler
on
May 12, 2022
Racecraft and the 1619 Project
Historian Barbara J. Fields explains why you can't understand what happened in 1619 without understanding what happened in 1607.
by
Center on Modernity in Transition
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YouTube
on
May 4, 2022
Workers Have Been Fighting Automation Ever Since Capitalism Began
Automation didn’t start in the age of robots and microchips, but can be traced back to the late 19th century glass industry and its skilled glass workers.
by
Alison Kowalski
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Jacobin
on
April 8, 2022
The Abolitionist Legacy of the Civil War Belongs to the Left
The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.
by
Dale Kretz
via
Jacobin
on
April 6, 2022
The Automation Myth
To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?
by
Clinton Williamson
via
The Baffler
on
April 6, 2022
partner
A Key Supreme Court Ruling Protecting Workers is Now in Jeopardy
The newly conservative court may target the decision that allows for a minimum wage.
by
Helen J. Knowles
via
Made By History
on
March 30, 2022
Baseball's Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
by
Peter Dreier
via
Dissent
on
March 28, 2022
The Forgotten Woman Behind International Women’s Day
Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.
by
Gillian Brockell
via
Retropolis
on
March 8, 2022
partner
Why International Women’s Day Matters
It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.
by
Suzanne Cope
via
Made By History
on
March 8, 2022
New Left Review
Who did neoliberalism?
by
Erik Baker
via
n+1
on
March 8, 2022
Ideas of the PMC
A review of three new books that in various ways track the rise of the "Professional Managerial Class."
by
Michael J. Kramer
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Society for U.S. Intellectual History
on
March 6, 2022
Climacteric!
Taking seriously the midlife crisis.
by
Trevor Quirk
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2022
The Constitution Was Meant to Guard Against Oligarchy
A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.
by
Chris Lehmann
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The New Republic
on
February 10, 2022
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