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Photograph of author Mike Davis.

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.
by Mike Davis, Daniel Denvir via Jacobin on October 31, 2022
Starbucks Workers United partners celebrate after a store in Mesa, Arizona, became the third Starbucks location in the country to unionize in February 2022.

Labor Rising

Is the working class experiencing a new CIO moment?
by Sarah Jaffe via The Progressive on October 10, 2022
African American mineworkers holding the American flag and a sign reading Join Our Union

Black and White Workers and Communists Built a “Civil Rights Unionism” Under Jim Crow

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.
by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin on October 3, 2022
Group of strawberry pickers in a strawberry field in Bell, California, ca. 1910.
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Internationalism and Racism in the Labor Movement

A commitment to internationalism helped build multi-ethnic campaigns within the more radical and anti-authoritarian side of the US labor movement.
by Livia Gershon, David Struthers via JSTOR Daily on September 30, 2022
Janitors picketing in Santa Monica in 2008.
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Strike!

Stories about American workers who have taken collective action to demand better conditions from those who benefit from their labor.
Fired Starbucks employees in Memphis celebrate the result of a vote to unionize one of the company’s stores.
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Women Have Always Been Key To the Labor Movement

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.
by Amy Mackin via Made By History on August 24, 2022
Painting of a stylized explosion and the silhouettes of African American soldiers.

A Deadly World War II Explosion Sparked Black Soldiers to Fight for Equal Treatment

After the deadliest home-front disaster of the war, African Americans throughout the military took action to transform the nation's armed forces.
by Matt Delmont via Smithsonian on August 24, 2022
Illustration of U.S. marshals guarding a freight train from a large mob.

The 1877 St. Louis Commune Was a Landmark Event for the International Workers’ Movement

The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.
by Mark Kruger via Jacobin on July 31, 2022
Black and white photo of Inez Milholland leading the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade on a white horse, Washington, D.C

What We Want Is to Start a Revolution

Formed in 1912 for “women who did things—and did them openly,” the Heterodoxy Club laid the groundwork for a century of American feminism.
by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2022
Black and white photo of Eugene V. Debs addressing a crowd at the Hippodrome Theatre, New York City.

Socialists on the Knife-Edge

American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very “American” values it is accused of undermining.
by Hari Kunzru via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2022
Sketch of workers with clubs attacking a national guardsman during the Great Railroad Strike, 1877.

The 1877 Class War That America Forgot

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.
by Ryan Zickgraf via Jacobin on July 3, 2022
Alexander Berkman speaks in Union Square at a gathering of the Industrial Workers of the World.

The “Wobblies” Documentary Reminds Us Why Bosses Are Still Scared of the IWW

The recently rereleased 1979 film can teach today’s workers how to throw their weight around.
by R. H. Lossin via The Nation on June 16, 2022
People holding union and BLM signs out of their car windows, taking part in the Workers First Caravan for Racial and Economic Justice, June 17, 2020, with the US capitol in the background.
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How Conservatives Drove a Wedge Between Economic and Cultural Liberals

Elites understood that a unified left spelled doom for their economic advantages.
by Jonathan Schlefer via Made By History on June 14, 2022
Illustration of W.E.B DuBois

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of "Black Reconstruction."
by Gerald Horne via The Nation on May 3, 2022
Illustration of T. Thomas Fortune

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on April 19, 2022
Paul Thompson photograph of Staten Island Shipbuilding Company interior view, early 1900s, PK 4119, Staten Island Museum Photo Collection, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, New York.

Crisis, Disease, Shortage, And Strike: Shipbuilding On Staten Island In World War I

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.
by Faith D'Alessandro via The Gotham Center on April 19, 2022
Members of the Amazon Labor Union celebrating

How Did Amazon Workers Go Against a Rich Corporation and Win? Look Back 100 Years.

We don’t need to overanalyze it. It came down to genuine solidarity that the Amazon Labor Union organizing committee built among themselves and their co-workers.
by Kim Kelly via NBC News on April 4, 2022
Max Scherzer, a member of the MLBPA bargaining committee, throws a pitch on March 21, 2022.

Baseball's Labor Wars

MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
by Peter Dreier via Dissent on March 28, 2022
Photo of Theresa Malkiel

The Forgotten Woman Behind International Women’s Day

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on March 8, 2022
Meghan Rapinoe, member of the U.S. Women's Soccer team, speaking at a podium about Equal Pay Day as President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden stand behind her, masked.
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Why International Women’s Day Matters

It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.
by Suzanne Cope via Made By History on March 8, 2022
Black Americans picketing for equal wages and improved working conditions during WWII.

We Need “CRT” to Understand the Midwest, Too

You can't tell the story of Midwestern cities like Toledo without being honest about their white supremacy problems.
by Bradley J. Sommer via The Activist History Review on January 13, 2022
Woman with fist raised and logo for "Mapping the Movimiento" project.

Mapping the Movimiento

Places and people in the struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights in San Antonio.
via ArcGIS StoryMaps on October 15, 2021
Exterior of Capital City Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, D.C.
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Organized Teachers Dreamed Up Charter Schools — But Their Vision Got Hijacked

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.
by Jon Hale via Made By History on August 25, 2021

What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History

Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers' rights.
by Abby Lee Hood via Smithsonian on August 25, 2021
Map of Pittsburgh Coal Company rate schedules

Coalminers and Coordination Rights

In the two decades before the Hepburn Act’s enactment, two entities vied for the right to coordinate the price and distribution of coal.
by Branden Adams via LPE Project on July 15, 2021
A Blair Mountain coal miner with his rifle slung over his shoulder, 1921.

A Century Ago, West Virginia Miners Took Up Arms Against King Coal

In 1921, twenty thousand armed miners in West Virginia marched on the coal bosses and were met with bombs and submachine guns.
by Arvind Dilawar, Chuck Keeney via Jacobin on June 23, 2021
The construction of the famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

The City That Embodies the United States’ Contradictions

In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.
by Robert Greene II via The Nation on May 17, 2021
Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Demonstration In New York

Cameras for Class Struggle

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by Max Pearl via Art In America on April 21, 2021
Union workers march past the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis.
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MLK’s Radical Vision Was Rooted in a Long History of Black Unionism

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.
by Peter Cole via Made By History on April 4, 2021
Garment workers selling newspapers

Feminist Trade Unionists Have Long Fought for Universal Health Care

As far back as WWI, militant unions like the International Ladies’ Garment Workers radicalized the campaign for health care and came within an inch of victory.
by Maya Adereth via Jacobin on January 28, 2021
Men and women workers marching in a 1914 May Day parade.

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, controlling our time is a vision of freedom worth capturing.
by Mike Konczal via Boston Review on January 8, 2021
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