Chad Pearson
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A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship

This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.

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Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement

Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.

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Power-Hungry Counter-Revolutionaries or Bourgeois Radicals?

Readers of the LAWCHA blog will be interested in a few of the different leftist interpretations of the meaning of American independence and.

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Labor History

Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists

How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his.

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Let’s Draw Horns on Roosevelt’s Head by Chad Pearson

A number of the historians in the audience at the 2014 Organization of American Historian’s session on the state of political history in.

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Volkswagen, Chattanooga and the Long History of Union Avoidance

A number of Tennessee’s politicians and business leaders are baffled and frustrated that autoworkers at Chattanooga’s sizable, $1 billon Volkswagen plant may force.

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