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From Solidarity to Shock Therapy: The AFL-CIO and the Fall of Soviet Communism

by Jeff Schuhrke on November 22, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the death of Mikhail Gorbachev this year have sparked renewed interest in the USSR’s 1991 disintegration, a moment that officially brought an end to the Cold War.

Historians have been prominent in the many recent discussions and debates about how the demise of the Soviet Union thirty years ago set the stage for Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, the controversial expansion of NATO, and the current war in Ukraine.

Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity

by Hannah Forsyth on June 26, 2020

Since the 1990s, the percentage of teaching delivered by precarious scholars has increased in Australian universities, like in many other countries. The sector generally attributes this to cuts in government funding, leading institutions to run the kind of ‘mass university’ that has been typical of the past thirty years, on the cheap.

Workers and the Struggle for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile

by Angela Vergara on November 20, 2019

Labor rights and working conditions are at the heart of the struggle for social justice in Chile today.

Los trabajadores y la lucha por la justicia social en el Chile neoliberal

by Angela Vergara on November 19, 2019

Los derechos y las condiciones de trabajo han estado en el centro de la lucha por la justicia social que se mantiene hoy en Chile.

Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.

by Lindsay Bartkowski on November 17, 2019

Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers, and therefore rescind their collective bargaining rights. By claiming graduate workers’ relationship to their university is primarily educational and not economic, the majority-Trump-appointed NLRB threatens to undermine decades of labor organizing.

Dawson Barrett on His New Book, The Defiant

by Joseph Walzer, Dawson Barrett on October 31, 2018

Joseph Walzer recently interviewed Dawson Barrett on his new book, The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America, a book that looks at the period from 1980 to the present through the lens of dissent—through the picket lines, protest marches, and sit-ins that are often overlooked.

How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story

by Michael Pierce on November 23, 2016

Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is a path long traveled; Bill Clinton undermined the budding multi-racial labor coalition in 1970s Arkansas.

Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County

by Daniel Sidorick on November 15, 2016

The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the news organization’s website titled “Why the poorest county in West Virginia has faith in Trump.”

The New Democrats and the Old Dominion: A Legacy of the Hyper-Capitalist 1990s

by Michael Dennis on September 15, 2016

The rise of Virginia to national political prominence has been a long time coming. Well before the centrist Tim Kaine was given the nod to become Hillary Clinton’s vice president, Virginia Democrats had been busy spearheading the abandonment of anything resembling a New Deal, Great society commitment to social democracy.

Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party

by Mark Lause on August 12, 2016

Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted to Labor Online August 4) It provides an opportunity to explore what he raised—and chose not to raise—with reference to the current election.

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