John Prine’s “Grandpa Was a Carpenter”
The great John Prine, a victim of the coronavirus last week, spent a career penning and performing songs about his own death, many
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal
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What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)
Increasing inequality is a pressing problem requiring serious research and vigorous debate as we strive for policies that improve people’s opportunities and outcomes.
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Margo Price, “Pay Gap”: Labor Song of the Month
While Margo Price’s concerns are political through and through, she isn’t hosting any pity parties. Many of her songs rock, countering the sobering
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A Tale of Two Futures: The Fate of the Dollar General Economy
Dollar General is everywhere. The most visible manifestation, of course, is the proliferation of their concrete block stores littering the landscape. But it’s
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Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017)
Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived —
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Labor Song of the Month
Greetings from the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, where we are actively building our online presence with original content.
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Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists
Usually I fear that the enterprise we call social media presages worldwide doom, but once in a great while I find it promises
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It’s Time to Fire the “Union Boss”: Here’s Why
In case natural disaster, nuclear war, and unpredictable political leaders are not enough to keep us up at night, we remain under threat
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Find and Follow Your North Star
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has now won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction, and it’s a fitting choice