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1970s United Fruit CEO Eli Black got caught between the warring ideals of ‘social responsibility’ and shareholder gains.

In the early 1900s heyday of the Socialist Party, Texas boasted a vibrant state party that attracted oppressed farmers in droves.

A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!

Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

The historical record says we shouldn’t be surprised.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

A new history dispenses with the sentimental lore and examines how Palo Alto has long been the seedbed for exploitation, chaos, and ecological degradation.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.

From civil rights marches to moonwalks, historical imagery that belongs to everyone is locked away behind paywalls. Why?

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

By leading the risky but eventually successful financial operation, Elisha justified his name.

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.

What happened in California in the 1970s played an outsized role in creating the world we live in today – both in the United States and globally.

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.

COVID-19 has recast the often-maligned restaurant drive-thru window as both a critical amenity and a basic comfort.

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.

Colonial currencies and the pan-American origins of the dollar system.

Harry Bridges may no longer be widely known, but his philosophy of inclusive, democratic unionism imbues much of today’s most ambitious organizing campaigns.

Competition over eggs on the Farallon Islands in the midst of the California Gold Rush in San Francisco led to an all out war between eggers.

International arms dealer Samuel Cummings blanketed the Western Hemisphere with guns.

America’s utopian communities have traditionally promoted egalitarianism and alternatives to capitalism. Company towns do the opposite.

The AR-15 thrives in times of tension and tragedy. This is how it came to dominate the marketplace – and loom so large in the American psyche.

How the WWE chairman warped pro wrestling all the way to WrestleMania 39.

From the Triangle Factory Fire to Shein, fast fashion can’t escape ethical quandaries.

Spurred by the pandemic, new groups of workers are pushing to form unions in activism not seen since the 1930s.

Raising awareness helped turn cancer from a stigmatized disease into a treatable one. But it hasn’t made affording that treatment any easier.

A new book argues that the real history of the league is one of strife between Black labor and white ownership.

The UVA president’s commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation were established to find and tell the stories of a painful past.

Despite captivating the nation with their athleticism every March, collegiate basktball players remain an exploited labor force for the profit of the NCAA.