From Solidarity to Shock Therapy: The AFL-CIO and the Fall of Soviet Communism
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.
LaborOnline
LaborOnline
Precarious Academic History in Australia & Organizing for Solidarity
Since the 1990s, the percentage of teaching delivered by precarious scholars has increased in Australian universities, like in many other countries. The sector.
- by Hannah Forsyth
- June 26, 2020
Global Affairs
LaborOnline
Workers and the Struggle for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Labor rights and working conditions are at the heart of the struggle for social justice in Chile today. Angela VergaraÁngela Vergara is a.
- by Angela Vergara
- November 20, 2019
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Los trabajadores y la lucha por la justicia social en el Chile neoliberal
Los derechos y las condiciones de trabajo han estado en el centro de la lucha por la justicia social que se mantiene hoy.
- by Angela Vergara
- November 19, 2019
LaborOnline
Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers,.
- by Lindsay Bartkowski
- November 17, 2019
Labor History
LaborOnline
New Book Interviews
Dawson Barrett on His New Book, The Defiant
Joseph Walzer recently interviewed Dawson Barrett on his new book, The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America, a book that looks at the.
- by Joseph Walzer
- October 31, 2018
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How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story
Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is.
- by Michael Pierce
- November 23, 2016
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Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County
The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the.
- by Daniel Sidorick
- November 15, 2016
Labor History
LaborOnline
The New Democrats and the Old Dominion: A Legacy of the Hyper-Capitalist 1990s
The rise of Virginia to national political prominence has been a long time coming. Well before the centrist Tim Kaine was given the.
- by Michael Dennis
- September 15, 2016
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Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party
Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted.
- by Mark Lause
- August 12, 2016