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The Five-Day Workweek is Dead
It’s time for something better.
by
Anna North
via
Vox
on
July 13, 2021
Faces of the Dead Emerge From Lost African American Graveyard
The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.
by
Michael E. Ruane
via
Washington Post
on
July 9, 2021
Inspiration Porn and Depictions of Impairment in Early America
How people understood disabilities in the 18th century, in contrast to contemporary interpretation, requires historical nuance.
by
Meg Roberts
via
Public Disability History
on
July 1, 2021
Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
May 17, 2021
The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project
At least 12 Black chemists and physicists worked as primary researchers on the team that developed the technology behind the atomic bomb.
by
Farrell Evans
via
HISTORY
on
May 17, 2021
The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”
The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.
by
Lucie Levine
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JSTOR Daily
on
May 12, 2021
Robert Owen, Born 250 Years Ago, Tried to Use His Wealth to Perfect Humanity
The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
by
Richard Gunderman
via
The Conversation
on
May 11, 2021
Difficult Topographies
There are whole hidden worlds pressing into this one.
by
Sam Coren
via
Contingent
on
May 5, 2021
The Filing Cabinet
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems.
by
Craig Robertson
via
Places Journal
on
May 1, 2021
Weary of Work
When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.
by
Emily K. Abel
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
April 28, 2021
Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience
If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by
Mae Ngai
via
The Atlantic
on
April 21, 2021
partner
Volunteering and Generosity Are No Substitutes for Government Programs
Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.
by
Katherine Turk
via
Made By History
on
April 19, 2021
The Great Dismal Swamp was a Refuge for the Enslaved. Their Descendants Want to Preserve It.
A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.
by
Meagan Flynn
via
Washington Post
on
April 11, 2021
A Rust Belt City’s New Working Class
Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
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The New Republic
on
March 31, 2021
The People, It Depends
What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."
by
Erik Baker
via
n+1
on
March 24, 2021
Pimento-cracy
The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 2021
Tarry with Me
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.
by
Ashanté M. Reese
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 2021
After Apple Picking
The decline of South Carolina's apple industry, interwoven with personal memories of family orchards.
by
Mark Powell
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 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
2021 Could Finally Be the Moment for the Equal Rights Amendment
The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.
by
Rebecca DeWolf
via
Made By History
on
March 17, 2021
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body
Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.
by
Laine Nooney
via
Vice
on
March 12, 2021
The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.
by
Matthew E. Stanley
via
Jacobin
on
March 1, 2021
partner
George Shultz: The Last Progressive
A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.
by
Ron Schatz
via
HNN
on
February 28, 2021
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.
by
Gerald Horne
via
The Nation
on
February 24, 2021
The Great Migration
1915 marked the beginning of the largest domestic migration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans began relocating north.
by
Will Donnell
via
wcd.fyi
on
February 20, 2021
He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964
Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.
by
David Hoffman
via
YouTube
on
February 17, 2021
Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame
His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.
by
Jemele Hill
via
The Atlantic
on
February 10, 2021
The Labor Feminism of 9to5 Should Guide Our Organizing Today
The vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.
by
Marianela D’Aprile
via
Jacobin
on
February 1, 2021
How Wyoming’s Black Coal Miners Shaped Their Own History
Many early Wyoming coal towns had thriving Black communities.
by
Brigida R. Blasi
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High Country News
on
January 28, 2021
The Limits of Caste
By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.
by
Hazel V. Carby
via
London Review of Books
on
January 21, 2021
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