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The Origins of Prison Slavery
How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.
by
Shane Bauer
via
Slate
on
October 2, 2018
Jack Delano's Color Photos of Chicago's Rail Yards in the 1940s
A handful of images from Chicago as it was some 75 years ago.
by
Alan Taylor
via
The Atlantic
on
October 2, 2018
Green and Pleasant Land
A review of four books that all deal with the long-lasting contradictions between the mythology and reality of farming.
by
Verlyn Klinkenborg
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 26, 2018
The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina
On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
by
Caroline Grego
via
Environmental History Now
on
September 13, 2018
“Labor Day” Isn’t Labor Day
The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?
by
Sam Wallman
via
The Nib
on
September 3, 2018
partner
The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley
Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.
by
Louis Hyman
via
Made By History
on
August 30, 2018
The Legacy of Black Reconstruction
Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by
Robert Greene II
via
Jacobin
on
August 27, 2018
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
When the blazing sun came up on the teenagers' first day of work, "everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?'"
by
Gustavo Arellano
via
NPR
on
August 23, 2018
How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management
The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
via
Boston Review
on
August 17, 2018
The Growing Rift Between Workers and Environmentalists
Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.
by
Erik Loomis
via
Modern American History
on
July 27, 2018
partner
The Campaign for Child Labor
Why did David Clark campaign to keep kids working in the early 20th century? For one thing, it benefited his interests.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Bart Dredge
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 28, 2018
Full Employment and Freedom
The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.
by
David Stein
via
Jacobin
on
May 25, 2018
There Is Power in a Union
A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.
by
Mike Konczal
via
The Nation
on
May 23, 2018
partner
How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War
Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by
Bryan Bowman
,
Kathy Roberts Forde
via
Made By History
on
May 17, 2018
partner
Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?
A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
,
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 16, 2018
Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess”
The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.
by
Matt Bruenig
via
People's Policy Project
on
May 13, 2018
The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee
How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
by
Peter-Christian Aigner
,
Michael Brenes
via
The New Republic
on
May 11, 2018
The Tacoma Method
How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
by
Andrew Gomez
via
University Of Puget Sound
on
May 1, 2018
partner
The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less
Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.
by
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
via
Made By History
on
April 24, 2018
What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker
Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.
by
Jessica Weisberg
via
The New Yorker
on
April 2, 2018
A Culture of Resistance
The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.
by
Chuck Keeney
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
March 30, 2018
America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude
It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.
by
Ariel Ron
,
Dael Norwood
via
The Atlantic
on
March 28, 2018
Pioneering Labor Activist Dolores Huerta
Huerta was far more than an assistant of Cesar Chavez, leader of United Farm Workers, and she risked her life for her activism.
by
Dolores Huerta
,
Lily Rothman
via
TIME
on
March 27, 2018
Still a Long Time Coming
Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by
Elias Rodriques
via
The Nation
on
March 21, 2018
The Factory in the Family
The radical vision of Wages for Housework.
by
Sarah Jaffe
via
The Nation
on
March 14, 2018
Reading the Soil
On the job with a pair of men who dig up bodies for a living.
by
Christopher Cox
via
Oxford American
on
March 13, 2018
partner
Donald Trump Wants to Take Republicans Back to Their Roots
The GOP was once the party of protectionism, while the Democrats led the way on free trade.
by
Jennifer Delton
via
Made By History
on
March 12, 2018
Agriculture Wars
On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by
Nick Murray
via
Viewpoint Magazine
on
March 12, 2018
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Infrastructure is Good for Business
During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?
by
Brent Cebul
on
March 12, 2018
How Poor, Mostly Jewish Immigrants Organized 20,000 and Fought for Workers Rights
These women came ready to fight.
by
Meagan Day
via
Timeline
on
March 9, 2018
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