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Child Labor In America Is Back In A Big Way
The historical record says we shouldn’t be surprised.
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Beth English
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Made By History
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April 18, 2023
How Government Helped Create the “Traditional” Family
Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.
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Livia Gershon
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Arianne Renan Barzilay
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JSTOR Daily
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April 12, 2023
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Elon Musk’s Utopian Town Will Disappoint — Like Most Company Towns
America’s utopian communities have traditionally promoted egalitarianism and alternatives to capitalism. Company towns do the opposite.
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Victoria W. Wolcott
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Made By History
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March 27, 2023
Was She Really Rosie?
The unlikely, true story of the Westinghouse “We Can Do It” work-incentive poster that became an international emblem of women’s empowerment.
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Michelle C. Smith
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JSTOR Daily
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March 15, 2023
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History Shows Moving Manufacturing to North America Isn’t a Cure-all
The initial promise of Mexican factories in the 1960s gave way to impoverished communities and capital flight in search of higher profits.
by
Sean Harvey
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Made By History
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March 6, 2023
The Fight for the Sabbath
The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.
by
Avi Garelick
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Jewish Currents
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February 21, 2023
Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing
Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.
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Ken Chen
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n+1
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January 25, 2023
Mike Davis Revisits His 1986 Labor History Classic, Prisoners of the American Dream
The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.
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Mike Davis
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Daniel Denvir
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Jacobin
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October 31, 2022
The Forgotten Woman Behind International Women’s Day
Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.
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Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
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March 8, 2022
That Time America Almost Had a 30-Hour Workweek
A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.
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Gillian Brockell
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Retropolis
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September 6, 2021
“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!”
On the rise and fall of radium in the beauty industry.
by
Lucy Jane Santos
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Literary Hub
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July 8, 2021
Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class
Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.
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Billy Anania
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Jacobin
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June 8, 2021
The Great Migration
1915 marked the beginning of the largest domestic migration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans began relocating north.
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Will Donnell
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wcd.fyi
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February 20, 2021
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Meatpacking Work Has Become Less Safe. Now it Threatens Our Meat Supply
Protecting the food supply chain means protecting workers.
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Chris Deutsch
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Made By History
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May 1, 2020
Capitalism’s Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over the world.
by
Michael Pollan
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The Atlantic
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March 15, 2020
On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement
Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.
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Stephen Harrigan
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Literary Hub
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October 2, 2019
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The Poultry Industry Recruited Them. Now ICE Raids Are Devastating Their Communities.
How immigrants established vibrant communities in the rural South over a quarter-century.
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Angela Stuesse
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Made By History
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August 9, 2019
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The Fire of a Movement
Ed Ayers visits the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and learns how public outcry inspired safety laws that revolutionized industrial work nationwide.
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Future Of America's Past
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August 8, 2019
The Road Not Taken
The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
by
Sarah Jaffe
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The New Republic
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June 24, 2019
The Square Deal
Some people called it "Welfare Capitalism." George F. Johnson called it "The Square Deal."
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Nellie Gilles
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Sarah Kate Kramer
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Joe Richman
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Radio Diaries
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June 20, 2019
The Price of Plenty: How Beef Changed America
Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.
by
Joshua Specht
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The Guardian
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May 7, 2019
America’s Missing Labor Party
The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by
David Sessions
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The New Republic
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October 2, 2018
Rosie the Riveter Isn’t Who You Think She Is
While the female factory worker is a pop icon now, the “We Can Do It!” poster was unknown to the American public in the 1940s.
by
Erick Trickey
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Retropolis
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September 3, 2018
The Triangle Shirtwaist Memorialist
Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.
by
Jeremiah Moss
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New York Review of Books
on
August 31, 2018
How (or How Not) to Build a Labor Movement
Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.
by
Jake Pitre
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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August 22, 2018
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by
Lane Windham
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Chris Brooks
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Jacobin
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February 25, 2018
Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History
Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.
by
Stephen Mihm
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Bloomberg
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February 23, 2018
When Deregulation is Deadly
Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.
by
Bryant Simon
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Gender Policy Report
on
December 20, 2017
It's Against The Law for Employers To Make You Sick. Thank The 'Radium Girls' For That
100 years ago, factory workers fought to hold companies accountable for their radium poisoning.
by
David Brancaccio
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Katie Long
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Marketplace
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November 28, 2017
Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”
Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”
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Erin Blakemore
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JSTOR Daily
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October 11, 2017
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