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James N. Gregory, “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders,” The Conversation (August 2, 2016)

As we watch Bernie Sanders’ supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why.

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Historical Marker for Sparrows Point Steel Mill

As part of our effort to make workers history public in the Baltimore area, we had a state historical marker erected in memory.

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The Right to Work, the Right to Carry, and the Right to Shoot

Cleveland's long history of guns is connected to anti-worker repression.

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Social Justice for a Global Working Class: the Midwest Labor and Working Class History’s 2016 Annual Conference

On June 10th students, activists, and scholars met at Purdue University for the 2016 annual Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) conference..

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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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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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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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Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration

Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed.

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Radical Leisure

Connections, both real and hoped for, between the labor movement and environmentalists have been news for at least fifteen years now. The possibility.

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Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?

Academe is a privileged place.  It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds.  Its hierarchical.

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