labor movement

A new book explores the Communist Party's western base and its alliance with the labor movement.

Today's pro-Palestinian activists are utilizing anti-apartheid tactics from thirty years ago.

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

History not only explains how the industrial Midwest became Trump country, but also how the area's politics may shift again.

Female industrial workers across the country and from diverse racial backgrounds fought to tell their own stories.

Union workers in the US weapons industry present a paradox for anti-war labor activists, but a history of “conversion” campaigns offers a route.

Who were the Molly Maguires, what did they do, and why did they do it?

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

The radical approach employed by black leftists at the Amenia conference set the stage for the civil rights unionism that would help topple Jim Crow.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

A century ago, it was once motivated by the goal of economic reorganization.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

Is the working class experiencing a new CIO moment?

Today’s activists should look to North Carolina's black and white tobacco workers, who organized a union and went on strike in the teeth of the Jim Crow South.

A commitment to internationalism helped build multi-ethnic campaigns within the more radical and anti-authoritarian side of the US labor movement.

While unionization in the service industry is increasingly in the news today, it is important to recognize that this is not a new development.

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.