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The Rightward Shift in Brazil, and Prospects for the Left: An Interview With Labor Historian Sean Purdy

Elections in Brazil are underway. Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro faces leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party in the final round of the.

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LaborOnline

The University of Iowa Labor Center and the Attacks on Labor

The attacks on labor these days take many forms.  Some are straight-forward and brutally confrontational—the Janus ruling or the state legislation in Iowa.

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LaborOnline

Poverty and Precarious Work

Given that many working people are also poor, Labor Day is good time to talk about poverty in the United States. But in.

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Labor History

The Coup in Brazil: What It Means for Workers

On May 11, more than two thirds of senators in Brazil voted to advance impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’.

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Global Affairs Articles Teaching Blog

Oaxaca Teachers Still Fighting Corporate Education Reforms

Ten years ago, one of the most radical unions in the hemisphere, the Sección XXII of Mexico’s National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), led.

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LAWCHA

Eyes off the Prize: Liberals in the Postwar Era

Thomas Edsall’s recent New York Times op-ed on the failure of Democrats to engage as effectively as Republicans in state-level politics parenthetically surfaces.

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LAWCHA

“We’ll just live within our means then!”: A Reaction to UW-Madison Graduate School Administration’s Proposal to “Restructure” Graduate Employee Pay

After briefly skimming over the potential effects of the proposed restructuring of pay for graduate assistants, I found myself jadedly stunned by the.

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LAWCHA

The State of Wisconsin: Neoliberalism’s Ground Zero

Readers of this blog are probably aware of what has been going on in the state of Wisconsin over the past couple of.

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