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• 1/16/2022
  

  Can a New Labor Movement Grow and Win with Direct Action Instead of Collective Bargaining?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  "In this time of growing corporate domination of the United States and of the world, William E. Scheuerman's A New American Labor Movement illuminates a useful path forward in the long and difficult struggle for workers’ rights."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/2/2020
  

  The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?

  Leaders like Elizabeth Warren are hoping that the current crisis will spur the kind of labor organizing that happened in the 1930s as workers fight for economic survival. 

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• 2/23/20
  

  Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Has he kept this promise?

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.