Karl Marx Makes a Comeback
Several months ago the Communist party in Russia updated their visual propaganda by giving three of their most controversial icons—Lenin, Stalin, and Karl Marx—a makeover.
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Valuing a Lost Work Culture
Late last fall I visited Stoke-on Trent, a city in the North-West of England which was once the epicentre of the UK’s huge pottery industry, now fallen on decidedly hard times. Local artist and academic Neil Brownsword, who had begun
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the kind of conservative, populist politics that led Drew Pendergrass
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Nativism Needs Fake History
Stephen Miller is the latest clone of Ann Coulter offered the public by the administration of President Donald J. Trump.
Teaching Labor’s Story
Teaching Labor's Story Overview Historical Eras Overview Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) Era 1 Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763) Era 2 Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s) Era 3 Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Era 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think
To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored research papers: “Be your own boss.” “Earn money on your schedule.” “With Uber, you’re in charge.” The
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Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history
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Terminated contingent faculty member at Barnard: updates and call
Members of the contingent faculty committee wrote recently to the president of Barnard College, both applauding the successful contract with the newly organized UAW Local 2110 (representing contingent faculty) and calling for the rehiring of contingent faculty activist Georgette Fleischer.
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My new book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, seeks to illuminate the lives
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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s crisis of bad jobs and stagnant wages. Twenty-first century working-class prosperity, however, must involve a reinvigorated labor