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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
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.
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
Eugene Debs in a suit

Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.
by Shawn Gude via Jacobin on September 2, 2020
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Black College Athletes Are Rising Up Against the Exploitative System They Labor In

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?
by Amira Rose Davis via Made By History on August 11, 2020
Lithograph of crowd gathering around a train.
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The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
by Richard Schneirov via HNN on June 21, 2020
Picket line march of auto workers.

Detroit Autoworkers’ Elusive Postwar Boom

The men who made the cars could not afford to buy them.
by Daniel Clark via The Metropole on January 30, 2020

How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia Takeover

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.
by Jason Turbow via Grubstreet on January 8, 2020

How the Labor Movement Built New York

A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.  
by Nick Juravich via The Nation on December 10, 2019

Docking Stations

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.
by Peter Cole, Arvind Dilawar via The Smart Set on October 7, 2019

On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.
by Stephen Harrigan via Literary Hub on October 2, 2019
UAW members during a sit-down strike in 1937

Remembering the First Clash Between UAW and GM

The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.
by Meagan Day via Jacobin on October 1, 2019

State of the Unions

What happened to America’s labor movement?
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019
A broken key with a fist

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 via The New Republic on June 24, 2019

Appalachian Women Fought for Workers Long Before They Fought for Jobs

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.
by Heather Duncan via Scalawag on March 25, 2019

How Air Traffic Controllers Helped End the Shutdown — and Changed History

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.
by Joseph A. McCartin via Washington Post on January 26, 2019

When King was Dangerous

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by Alex Gourevitch via Jacobin on January 21, 2019
Martin Luther King Junior in a picket line wearing a sign that reads "employees on strike for a living wage."

Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.
by Peter Cole via The Conversation on January 18, 2019

The Real Roots of American Rage

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.
by Charles Duhigg via The Atlantic on December 15, 2018
Covers of Lepore's "These Truths" and Loomis's "History of America in Ten Strikes."

The Limits of Liberal History

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 28, 2018
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The Militant Miners Who Exposed the Horrors of Black Lung

This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.
by Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Alan Derickson via JSTOR Daily on September 25, 2018

Janus v. Democracy

The Janus decision is a significant setback for democracy. What should public-sector workers do now?
by Joseph A. McCartin via Dissent on June 27, 2018

Lessons From the Gilded Age

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?
by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on June 13, 2018

Photographer George Rodriguez Has Chronicled L.A. in All of Its Glamour and Grit

Rodriguez has captured celebrities in repose and farmworkers on strike.
by Carolina A. Miranda via Los Angeles Times on April 23, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.
by Michael K. Honey via The Nation on April 3, 2018

One Night on the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.
by Tonyaa Weathersbee via The Bitter Southerner on April 3, 2018
Striking miners

A Culture of Resistance

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
by Chuck Keeney via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 30, 2018
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