labor shortages

Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.

W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today.

The 19th-century antecedent to today’s complaints of labor shortage.

Locked-down parents will need an army of tween child-minders. Let the Baby-Sitters Club show them the way.

The unlikely, true story of the Westinghouse “We Can Do It” work-incentive poster that became an international emblem of women’s empowerment.

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.

Why do so many politicians think people only work if threatened or forced into doing so?

African Americans and the mobilization of the Confederate capital.

With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.

It's been a tough year for the Georgia peach.

Decisions about medical training and licensing in the 19th and early 20th century are still having an impact today.

Calls for control over educators are manufactured political myths as they’ve never had the power to push an agenda.

A new book catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.

A century of battles over a neighborhood pool reveal a complicated picture, about who matters, and who gets the chance to live well in a segregated city.

The U.S. managed to pay for a child care program during the most expensive war ever. What happened?

Zooming in on the places where early women photographers could build a career.

The families arrived from Japan with fanfare, most disappeared without a trace.

How masks became gendered during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic.