Nelson Lichtenstein

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the growth of a national security state.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

Today’s activists should look to North Carolina's black and white tobacco workers, who organized a union and went on strike in the teeth of the Jim Crow South.

W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today.