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Building Solidarity: The Passaic Textile Strike (1926 Film)

by Jacob Zumoff

Labor Online interviewed Jacob Zumoff about his new book, The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike last year. In the course of the interview he mentioned the way that this strike creatively used film to build support for the workers cause. That film is available online. Jacob wrote a nice wrap around essay to guide the viewing. Snippets or the entire film would be good for classroom use–another side of the “roaring 20s.” Created by the Communist-affiliated International Workers Aid (IWA) in 1926, the seven-reel silent film The Passaic Textile strike not only documents this important strike, but elaborates concepts of working-class solidarity that, if seemingly out of place in the roaring twenties, became prominent in the Great Depression. Read more →

January 21^st, 2022

December 30^th, 2021

Jason Resnikoff’s essay on QWERTY & the Neuter Keyboard- free access until March 31

by Rosemary Feurer

December 21^st, 2021

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December 13^th, 2021

The Violence of Work: an Exchange

by Emily E. LB. Twarog

December 2^nd, 2021

Immigrant Societies and Union Culture

by Bob Rossi

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Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

by William Jones on April 23^rd,2020

New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers.

When the Home Is a Workplace

by Eileen Boris on April 17^th,2020

In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way. Read more →

LAWCHA at OAH

by Jacob Remes on March 18^th,2019

LAWCHA is pleased to have solicited and endorsed several panels at the 2019 OAH Conference in Philadelphia. We hope to see you there. Read more →

Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

by Leon Fink on February 6^th,2019

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 lines in the Civil War a “general strike.” Read more →

Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?

by Jack Metzgar on November 30^th,2018

Two days after the mid-term elections, The Washington Post published an analysis under the headline “These wealthy neighborhoods delivered Democrats the House majority.” Read more →

The AHA and the Chicago Hotel Strike

by Julie Greene on October 20^th,2018

On Sept. 7 UNITE HERE began a strike against 25 hotels in Chicago. The demands focused on year round health insurance and other benefits. Six… Read more →

Labor Song of the Month: “Harry Bridges”

by Peter Cole on September 20^th,2018

Nowadays, the name Harry Bridges elicits no response from the average American. Some San Francisco Bay Area residents might connect his name to the large plaza outside the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero running alongside the bay. Read more →

What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)

by Daniel Graff on September 20^th,2018

Increasing inequality is a pressing problem requiring serious research and vigorous debate as we strive for policies that improve people’s opportunities and outcomes. One direct way to tackle this challenge is to confront the problem of pay, especially in the United States, where our public culture has long correlated hard work with personal worth and our public policies have wedded social benefits to employment via tax credits, health care insurance and pensions. Read more →

The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy

by Jonathan Kissam on September 5^th,2018

Jonathan Kissam, historian and Communications Director for United Electrical Workers Union, digs into the past for some ideas for the future, in a post originally… Read more →

Martin J. Bennett, “50 Years Ago: King, Memphis, and the Poor People’s Campaign,” Beyond Chron, May 31, 2018

by Ryan Poe on June 25^th,2018

Most Americans know that a white racist assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4,1968 – fifty years ago. But few understand the historical context and why King was in Memphis. Read more →

National Park Service Fall Webinar Series – Monumental Labor Landscapes of Work and Struggle

Rosemary Feurer , November 3^rd,2021

“Jovita Idar A Texas Labor, Education, and Anti-lynching activist”

Sonia Hernandez , October 29^th,2021

Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City

Rosemary Feurer , October 20^th,2021

Revolt at John Deere — Ties to a Radical Past

Toni Gilpin , October 16^th,2021

The Unbuttoned Mind of Jeremy Brecher

Paul Buhle , October 14^th,2021

Toni Gilpin on Her New Book, The Long Deep Grudge

Randi Storch , October 12^th,2021

What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz

Leon Fink , October 10^th,2021

Blair 100 A Centennial of Solidarity and Courage

Louis Martin , October 4^th,2021

UNITE HERE, the 2020 Elections and Beyond

Martin Bennett , October 2^nd,2021

Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

Lisa Philips , September 29^th,2021

Jacob Zumoff on The Red Thread; the Passaic Textile Strike

Rosemary Feurer , September 23^rd,2021

Forum on John French’s Lula and His Politics of Cunning

Alex Lichtenstein , September 6^th,2021

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