Labor and New Deal Art: the Commemoration of the Little Steel Strike of 1937 is a wonderful resource for labor historians and teachers, especially those who like to use visuals to generate discussions in their classrooms. I’m teaching a course on the mid- twentieth century this semester, and plan to use this along with some other resources discussed below in the class.
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A remarkable commemoration occurred recently in Winston-Salem, North Carolina–a tribute to the connections forged between civil rights and unionism 70 years ago.
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On May 6, Bob Korstad joined civil rights activists, 2 former presidents of the Organization of American Historians and other concerned citizens to protest the North Carolina legislature moves including denial of and restrictions on health care access, curtailing of uenmployment benefits; restrictions on the right to vote; tax reductions for the rich.
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As I write this it’s Workers’ Memorial Day, an event that barely gets a blip on the media screens. But it brought to my mind one of the first union demonstrations I ever participated in, one that protested the decline in OSHA standards.
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Two recent stories in the bastions of mainstream media draw attention to the study of capitalism and Marx. That’s all to the good, even if the articles treat this like a fashion trend.
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Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) comments about President Obama’s State of the Union Address seemed to be channeling one of this blog’s recent commentaries by Leon Fink on Obama’s Inaugural Address. Fink reflected on the absence of historical memory about the role of labor in the past and the present in Obama’s historical presentation
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In the wake of the continued disasters for workers rights in the last few years and the recent release of statistics suggesting that labor unions continue their decline to oblivion, it’s altogether fitting that we feature the forum on Joseph McCartin’s book Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America
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As a regular feature of this blog, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas will be opening public access and dialogue about one article in its current issue. Given that November 11 (1887) was known as “Black Friday” across the globe because four Chicago anarchist labor activists were hung by the state on that date, it is supremely fitting that we feature the current Labor roundtable on Timothy Messer Kruse’s book The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age.
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