politics and labor
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”

This is an English translation of a review first published https://commonware.org/recensioni/vite-di-commessi-elettori-le-elezioni-americane-e-la-middle-class ) Sarah Jones reviews The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger “Once.

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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.

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LaborOnline

The Coronavirus Message: America Needs Universal Paid Sick Leave

The global coronavirus pandemic is walloping California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all 40 million residents to ‘shelter in place’ except for.

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Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity

Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay  “Remapping the American Left:.

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LAWCHA

The Red Scare and Radical Unionism

One hundred years ago this November, a small army of federal agents, backed by police and vigilantes, launched the first of a series.

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LAWCHA

Research on Graduate Assistants & Right to Unionize Challenges NLRB proposed rule

On November 20, 2019, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of.

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Labor History LaborOnline

The Fight for Good Jobs and a Democratic Economy

Jonathan Kissam, historian and Communications Director for United Electrical Workers Union, digs into the past for some ideas for the future, in a.

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“Oilcan” Ed Sadlowski, 1938-2018: Midwestern Grit

Ed Sadlowski passed away yesterday. His life is a testament to the grit of the leftwing Midwestern union militants. His roots in unionism.

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Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation

This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.

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Labor History

Clinton and Trump: Labor and the Election of 2016

Both the polling and the pundits’ predictions of a Clinton victory were wrong. The reasons for Trump’s victory in part can be understood.

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