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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

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

Dolores Huerta receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.

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

Trump speaks to auto workers.

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

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

Firefighters trying to put out the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911.

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

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

A New Struggle Coming

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.

by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on March 5, 2018

Female medics during the 1918 pandemic.

How the Devastating 1918 Flu Pandemic Helped Advance US Women's Rights

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.

by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker, Morten Wendelbo via The Conversation on March 1, 2018

Carter G. Woodson’s West Virginia Wasn’t ‘Trump Country,’ It Was a Land of Opportunity

In his travelogues, Woodson rhapsodized over what he saw as a love of democracy among hard-scrabble mountain settlers of both races.

by Cynthia R. Greenlee via 100 Days in Appalachia on February 28, 2018

This Is Helen Keller’s 1932 'Modern Woman'

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”

by Caitlin Cadieux via The Atlantic on February 27, 2018

Painting of peasants and landlords on Yuri's Day

How American Slavery Echoed Russian Serfdom

Russian serfdom and American slavery ended within two years of each other; the defenders of these systems of bondage surprisingly shared many of the same arguments.

by Matthew Wills, Peter Kolchin, William C. Hine via JSTOR Daily on February 27, 2018

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

by Lane Windham, Chris Brooks via Jacobin on February 25, 2018

Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on February 23, 2018

Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

by Dylan Gottlieb via Public Seminar on February 15, 2018

Sex, Pong, And Pioneers

What Atari was really like, according to the women that were there.

by Cecilia D'Anastasio via Kotaku on February 12, 2018

Organized Labor’s Lost Generations

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on February 7, 2018

The Kids Aren’t Alright

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.

by Natasha Lennard via Dissent on January 1, 2018

When Deregulation is Deadly

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

by Bryant Simon via Gender Policy Report on December 20, 2017

Before #MeToo: The Long Struggle Against Sexual Harassment at Work

An interactive timeline recounts the movement to end sexual harassment.

by Matthew Green via The Lowdown on December 14, 2017

Rosie the Riveters Discovered a Wartime California Dream

Following wartime opportunities west, seven million “Rosie the Riveters” found more than just jobs when they reached California.

by Samuel J. Redman via The Conversation on November 29, 2017

It's Against The Law for Employers To Make You Sick. Thank The 'Radium Girls' For That

100 years ago, factory workers fought to hold companies accountable for their radium poisoning.

by David Brancaccio, Katie Long via Marketplace on November 28, 2017

The Massacre That Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via Smithsonian on November 21, 2017

We’ve Got the ’70s-Style Rage. Now We Need the ’70s-Style Feminist Social Analysis.

Amid all the stories about harassment and abuse, there’s been hardly any discussion about how we got here.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 20, 2017

A line of prisoners picking cotton in Huntsville, Texas.

The Oil Boom’s Roots in East Texas Cotton Farming

Oil’s rise was as dependent on the old as much as the new. The industry also benefited from changes in agriculture.

by Scot McFarlane via Texas Monthly on November 1, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017

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