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Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished

Today we wrap up our roundtable with Nate Holdren’s response to commenters on his new book  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

Chad Pearson offers comments on employer violence in understanding workplace injury as part of a roundtable on Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents,.

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LaborOnline

Injustice, Aggregated: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

Today Trish Kahle weighs in on our roundtable  on Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era,  just.

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LaborOnline

Workers’ Worth: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished

Today we continue our roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published from.

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Book Roundtable LaborOnline

A Roundtable Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished : Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era  

Today we begin a week-long roundtable discussion on Nate Holdren’s  Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, just published.

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LaborOnline

The Labor Costs of Dual Enrollment Programs

The dual enrollment programs offered to cash-strapped students and parents imposes a specific labor burden on sometimes low-paid faculty. We need a solution.

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Labor History

Historic Levels of Inequality

The pundits always seem to miss the politics of capitalism in their effort to explain inequality. It looks like a new book by.

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LAWCHA

The Limits to Entrepreneurship: Why Innovation Won’t Solve Poverty

Can starting your own business rocket someone from the near bottom to near top of the economic pyramid?  It might work for a.

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Labor History

Empire of Cotton Still Based on Violence

At the recent LAWCHA conference here in Washington, D.C., I was among those applauding heartily when Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven.

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Labor History

Standing Up for a House of Labor–the Debs Home in Terre Haute

In 1968, on the corner of the campus of Indiana State University, there sat a small home. Previously a member of Terre Haute’s.

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