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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Scholar Strike Forming On Social Media May Be Omen Of Things To Come
A social-media organized effort by professors represents a new effort to connect academic work to activism for justice.
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9/6/2020
On Labor Day, Think of Bread and Roses
by William Lambers
On Labor Day, remember the demands of striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Working people deserve more than bare subsistence; they're entitled to dignity and pleasure too.
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6/21/2020
The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests
by Richard Schneirov
1877 saw a wave of mass protests and strikes by the urban poor of multiple ethnicities, violent repression by the forces of law and order, and a news media that focused on sensational instances of looting and property damage while ignoring the protesters' complaints about inequality during a brutal economic downturn.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/30/2020
The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley
by Margaret O'Mara
The blue-collar workers who power the digital economy — including fulfillment center workers and app-based couriers — are pushing for higher pay and better protection, just as Detroit autoworkers did 90 years ago.
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SOURCE: St. Paul Union Advocate
5/4/2020
Lessons from Labor History can Inform our Labor Movement During COVID-19 Crisis
by Peter Rachleff
The story of the 1934 Twin Cities' Teamsters strike story shows how the union won better lives for its members by linking workers and their families to the union, other unions, and the community.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/28/2020
Another Way the 2020s Might Be Like the 1930s
The strikes and protests of the past month have been small, but they aren’t inconsequential.
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SOURCE: Fortune
3/30/2020
USPS Warns it Might Have to Shutter by June as $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package Provides No Funding
The USPS is the federal government’s most favorably viewed agency, with an approval rating of 90%.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/11/19
How teachers advocating for their students could backfire
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
It reinforces the view of teachers as self-sacrificing servants instead of highly trained professionals.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
12/11/19
Historians Kirsten Weld and Erik Baker Interviewed About Harvard Graduate Worker Strike in Chronicle of Higher Education
Graduate workers at Harvard are striking. Here’s what they want, and how they plan to get it.
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SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
10/16/19
A history of key United Auto Workers strikes against GM
General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal Wednesday.
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SOURCE: NY Times
9/11/19
The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders
by Jamelle Bouie
Conflict was the engine of labor reform in the 1930s. And mass strikes and picketing, in particular, pushed the federal government to act.
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SOURCE: The Activist History Review
8/27/19
Graduate Worker Organizing is Scholarly Praxis
by Hannah Borenstein
For many inside and outside of academia the notion that graduate students are indeed workers is not readily clear. In large part, I came to see this as mirrored through the reproduction of academia’s lack of emphasis on scholarly praxis.
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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: 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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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.
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9-3-17
How Did Workers Win the Right to Form a Union and Go on Strike?
by Timothy P. Lynch
It happened in Flint, Michigan 80 years ago. We should remember it today. It was American labor’s biggest victory of the 20th century.
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Why Ports Are the New Factories
by Louis Hyman
Crane at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California. Credit: Wiki Commons.Last month, union activists across the country celebrated what they saw as the latest opportunity to kickstart the moribund labor movement: a strike at Walmart on Black Friday. Retail workers, or as Walmart calls them, "associates," across the country were to walk out on the greatest shopping day of the year. The walkout was to signal the national unity of retail workers and strike a blow that would stagger the giant from Bentonville. At the same time, it would galvanize liberal consumers who would support the walk-out by their refusal to shop. Bringing together consumers and workers, they believed, would force America's largest retailer to the negotiating table.It failed.Walkouts were erratic. Shoppers, most of whom were hard-pressed workers themselves, thought more about the presents under the tree than the picket lines, if there were any. It turns out, as one might expect, that coordinating a walkout at thousands of locations across the country was hard, even in this age of social media.
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