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The First New Deal
Planning, market coordination, and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.
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Sanjukta Paul
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Phenomenal World
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March 28, 2024
That Time America Almost Had a 30-Hour Workweek
A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.
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Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
on
September 6, 2021
Abolish Oil
The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.
by
Reinhold Martin
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Places Journal
on
June 16, 2020
The Other NRA (Or How the Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)
Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Slate
on
May 22, 2013
When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
by
John Fabian Witt
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The Nation
on
June 27, 2023
The 1929 Loray Mill Strike Was a Landmark Working-Class Struggle in the US South
Murdered during the 1929 Loray Mill strike, Ella May Wiggins became a working-class martyr—and a symbol of labor’s fight to democratize the anti-union South.
by
Karen Sieber
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Jacobin
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September 14, 2022
Forces of Labor: The Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage has not risen in over 15 years. We analyze why.
by
Esha Krishnaswamy
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Historic.ly
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July 26, 2024
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The FTC May Crack Down on Price Discrimination. Will It Matter?
The Robinson-Patman Act was supposed to prevent price discrimination — but consumers wanted cheap goods.
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Marc Levinson
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Made By History
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May 23, 2023
The Safe Harbor
Harry Bridges may no longer be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns.
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E. Tammy Kim
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New York Review of Books
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March 30, 2023
Why Is Wealth White?
In the 20th century, a moral economy of “whites-only” wealth animated federal policies and programs that created the propertied white middle class.
by
Julia Ott
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Southern Cultures
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January 30, 2023
Controlled Prices
Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.
by
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
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Phenomenal World
on
January 12, 2022
The Hidden Stakes of the Infrastructure Wars
The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.
by
David Alff
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Boston Review
on
June 25, 2021
Before Operation Dixie
What the failed Southern labor movement teaches us about the rightward shift in US politics.
by
Joe William Trotter Jr.
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Dissent
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December 16, 2020
Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History
Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
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Kyle Sammin
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National Review
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October 15, 2019
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