27 Posts tagged "Labor History"
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash When I talk with fellow workers, organizers, and union leaders across the country, I often hear the same two…
Goliath At Sunset The 1970s were a turbulent time in U.S. history. The Vietnam War was winding down while inflation was nibbling away at workers ' paychecks.…
"Quick! Into the boxes!" The words sent 11-year-old Pauline Newman and the other children scrambling for cover inside the large cardboard boxes, already half…
Hell's Not Far Off: Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left, West Virginia University Press Josh Howard's Hell's Not Far Off: Bruce Crawford and the…
Federated Press Bulletin, front page, issue of Jan. 12, 1924. This won't come as a surprise to union activists, but the mainstream press doesn't always fairly…
Over the past three decades, scholars have written extensively about attempts by post - World War II unions to promote social change and greater member…
Twenty years have passed since Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, devastating New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. But the legacy of the storm, and the…
Detroit, Michigan. Delegates at the United Automobile Workers (UAW) international convention , photograph by Arthur S. Siegel, 1942, Prints and Photographs…
Sally Field as Norma standing alone as the individual underdog hero. Screenshot of Norma Rae (1979) courtesy of author. Big pop culture – television, movies,…
Photo by Anna Marie Kellen, the Photograph Studio: The Metropolitan Museum of Art On the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, tucked…
The elusive promise of interracial solidarity poses an age-old question that is even more urgent now because of the current political climate: Can Black and…
The moment the Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named the next pope, my office neighbor—a historian of the Soviet Union—knocked hard on my door. "THE…
"Farm, farm workers, Mt. Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California", Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,…
"An old Catholic chapel" by WonderfulSnaps.com , CC BY 2.0 It's an increasingly familiar story. Workers attempt to organize in spaces that by their stated…
Power comes from the people – and U.S. history is replete with grassroots social movements that shaped the nation. But what makes an effective movement? There…