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News & Alerts
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Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City
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Revolt at John Deere — Ties to a Radical Past
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The Unbuttoned Mind of Jeremy Brecher
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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Toni Gilpin on Her New Book, The Long Deep Grudge
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What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz
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Blair 100: A Centennial of Solidarity and Courage
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UNITE HERE, the 2020 Elections and Beyond
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Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
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Jacob Zumoff on The Red Thread; the Passaic Textile Strike
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Forum on John French’s Lula and His Politics of Cunning
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Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
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The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
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Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
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How Amazon’s Anti-Union Consultants Are Trying to Crush the Labor Movement
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Membership list is back!
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels Essay on Italian Immigrant Gatekeeping – Free Access
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Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
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Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
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A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10
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Collective Bargaining from All Sides in Higher Education
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100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan
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Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club
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Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
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“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”
Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City
Donald Rogers recent book Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO (2020) reminds us of the terrific struggles that workers endured against policing, and the way that these struggles led to the fight for civil liberties. Frank Hague was a Jersey City, N.J. Democratic Party boss who banned picketing and distribution of leaflets on public property by the newly organized Committee of Industrial Organizations in 1937. He claimed the CIO was a Communist organization and used a city ordinance that banned gatherings of groups that advocated obstruction of government by unlawful means. Hague used the city police to brutally suppress organizing drives. As they did in the South, CIO’s organizers compared Hague’s iron rule to Hitler, using anti-fascism as a call to action. Led by the CIO’s left-wing Lee Pressman, they also took the case to the courts in coalition with the American Civil Liberties Union. I asked Prof. Rogers a few questions that highlight some of this story. Read more →
