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Syrian Families in the Colorado Coal Mining Communities
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Contingent Magazine: History Is For Everyone
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David Witwer on Murder in the Garment District
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Betrayal: A Critical View of the Government Takeover of the Teamsters
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National Park Service Fall Webinar Series – Monumental Labor: Landscapes of Work and Struggle
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“Jovita Idar: A Texas Labor, Education, and Anti-lynching activist”
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Donald Rogers on his recent book, Workers Against the City
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Revolt at John Deere — Ties to a Radical Past
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The Unbuttoned Mind of Jeremy Brecher
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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Toni Gilpin on Her New Book, The Long Deep Grudge
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What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz
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Blair 100: A Centennial of Solidarity and Courage
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UNITE HERE, the 2020 Elections and Beyond
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Jenny Carson’s A Matter of Moral Justice; Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
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Jacob Zumoff on The Red Thread; the Passaic Textile Strike
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Forum on John French’s Lula and His Politics of Cunning
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Emmett Till & United Packinghouse Workers by Matthew Nichter – Free Access til August 1
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Writing Workshop
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The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
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Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
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How Amazon’s Anti-Union Consultants Are Trying to Crush the Labor Movement
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Membership list is back!
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels Essay on Italian Immigrant Gatekeeping – Free Access
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Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
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Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
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A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10
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Collective Bargaining from All Sides in Higher Education
Syrian Families in the Colorado Coal Mining Communities
Since the 1980s, Bob Rossi has been working on a social history of Colorado coal mining communities and an account of the 1927–28 Colorado mine workers’ strike. A part of this work has entailed documenting the lives of Syrian and Lebanese families in the Colorado coalfields. Rossi is a retired union organizer who had family members employed in coal mining. He recognized the need to capture these stories and thus provide nuanced understanding of the Syrian and Lebanese immigrant experience as related to the coal industry and labor strikes. With a focus on the mining communities of Walsenburg and Trinidad, the following post offers some of Rossi’s findings and details how Syrians and Lebanese helped build, benefitted from, and demonstrated against Colorado coal mining companies. This essay was originally published in the Moise A. Khayrallah Center Newsletter in September 1921. We’ll be publishing a second essay from Rossi next week. Read more →
