Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post
The new year has not been happy for former Sears employees. As the company fights for its life in bankruptcy court, laid-off employees.
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal.
- by Daniel Graff
- January 29, 2019
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2019 WILL Empower Apprenticeship Applications are Now Open
Please help spread the word about an opportunity for college seniors, recent graduates, or rank-and-file activists who are interested in trying out a.
- by Lane Windham
- January 12, 2019
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Working Class in American History Series: Perspective from Appalachia
Editor’s note: This is our 5th in the series on the celebration and reflections on the anniversary of the University of Illinois Press.
- by Jessica Wilkerson
- December 28, 2018
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Working Class in American History Series: A Perspective From the African-American Field
We continue our commentaries about the important contributions and critical reviews of the remarkable Working Class in American History Series, which is celebrating.
- by Joe William Trotter
- December 23, 2018
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Writing History with Working People as Central Actors
The project was imbued with E. P Thompson’s vision of class as a historical relationship, and of course there was his iconic statement.
- by Julie Greene
- December 20, 2018
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The Global Working Class Fights Back
2018 has seen many working-class people around the world standing up for their rights and pushing back against injustice and inequality. Some of.
- by Sarah Attfield
- December 19, 2018
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40 Years of Working-Class History: The Series and the Field
Thanks to the organizers and to the Newberry. I always listen carefully to and learn from Nelson, but I think he and I.
- by James Barrett
- December 16, 2018
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The University of Illinois Working Class in American History Series at 40
In the next two weeks, we’ll be publishing a series of commentaries about the important contributions and critical reviews of the remarkable Working.
- by Nelson Lichtenstein
- December 13, 2018
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Class Prejudice and the Democrats’ Blue Wave?
Two days after the mid-term elections, The Washington Post published an analysis under the headline “These wealthy neighborhoods delivered Democrats the House majority.” Jack Metzgar
- by Jack Metzgar
- November 30, 2018