What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz
Remembering the legacies of two longtime advocates for the working-class. On August 5, 2021 labor advocates across the country lost a champion with the
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Sanders or Warren? Populist-Progressivism or New Deal? Take Your Pick!
Political commentators regularly identify both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as populists. Labor historian Leon Fink dives into the debate over their roots.
OpEd
Could Regional Reparations Help the Democrats Retake the Rust Belt?
States such as Ohio and Michigan have been hit with blight and economic downturn. Offering reparations to those hardest hit could be the
OpEd
Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle
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Labor ends all business relations with FedEx
In recent months we have taken action to end the shipping of print copies of Labor by FedEx in any capacity. Leon Fink
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Solidarity? Whatever—Obama’s Forgotten Social Movement
President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, progressive? Maybe. But only if you are one of the liberals who have forgotten this nation’s working class.
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Our Man in Rio: Leon Fink Reports on Inspiring Conference
From November 27 to November 30, 2012, I had the pleasure of attending the Second International “Worlds of Labor” conference—effectively the Brazilian labor
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Remembering Al Young, by Leon Fink & Jesse Lemisch
Alfred F. Young, a pioneer of the “new labor history,” noted social historian of the early American nation, and a founding editor of
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LaborOnline
I write with exciting news of the takeoff of LaborOnline, a new blog that will deepen and extend the content of LAWCHA’s flagship