labor history

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• 8/18/19
  

  Democrats Must Offer Americans "Bread and Roses" to Counter National Conservatism

  by Ed Simon

  Any party, politician, or perspective which offers meaning, which gives us roses, will have an advantage as we face the inevitable economic and social collapse of the neo-liberal paradigm. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/16/19
  

  Peter Cole's ‘Dockworker Power’ Highlights Transnational Struggles for Justice

  by Ralph Callebert

  There is thus an extensive literature on dockworkers and their activism. Peter Cole’s Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area fits in this tradition.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  The myths behind the push to resurrect child labor

  by Oenone Kubie

  Why is there a significant push to resurrect child labor. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/8/19
  

  Why we need to address the demands of striking ride-hailing service drivers

  by Mary Angelica Painter

  History tells us that ignoring these grievances could lead to catastrophic consequences.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Century Ago, May Day Brought Anarchist Bombs to Mailboxes—And Helped Transform American Politics

  by Katrina Gulliver

  On April 30, the Evening World ran an extra edition that, under the headline “NATION-WIDE TERRORIST PLOT,” described the “infernal machines” as part of a conspiracy.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/20/19
  

  Alice Kessler-Harris: Becoming a Feminist, Becoming a Labor Historian

  by Lara Vapnek

  For the past forty years, Alice Kessler-Harris has been on the vanguard of labor history and of women’s and gender history.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/11/19
  

  Underpaid, but Employed: How the Great Depression Affected Working Women

  More women entered the work force during the economically tough era, but the jobs they took were relegated as "women's work" and poorly paid.

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• SOURCE: UFCW
  3/7/19
  

  26 Labor Heroines You Should Know for Women's History Month

  And how they shaped American and labor history. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/6/19
  

  Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists

  by Steven C. Beda

  Remembering the 1919 Seattle General Strike on its 100th anniversary.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

  by Leon Fink

  What W.E.B. Du Bois and American labor history can teach us about the government shutdown's end. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  1/18/19
  

  Ahead of its 100th anniversary, revisiting the Seattle General Strike and the city’s long legacy of organized labor

  The Seattle General Strike lasted six days, with not a single shot fired nor a single striker arrested.

• SOURCE: NYT
  6-24-13
  

  Jefferson Cowie: The Future of Fair Labor

  Jefferson Cowie is a professor of labor history at Cornell and the author of “Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.”ITHACA, N.Y. — SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under “rudimentary standards of decency” should not be “allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade."The act is the bedrock of modern employment law. It outlawed child labor, guaranteed a minimum wage, established the official length of the workweek at 40 hours, and required overtime pay for anything more. Capping the working week encouraged employers to hire more people rather than work the ones they had to exhaustion. All this came not from the magic of market equilibrium but from federal policy.For decades afterward, Congress brought more people under the law’s purview and engaged in perennial struggles to maintain or increase the minimum wage. Fifty years ago this month, John F. Kennedy signed its most important amendment, the Equal Pay Act, which guaranteed women and others equal pay for equal work....