I'm not saying that all early footage films are exciting and it'd be real hard to call this "exciting" at all. But I am always fascinated by early labor films and in this film, we see women checking out at the time box to leave...
Author: Erik Loomis
Elite institutions are so excited to tame pandemic era worker power, but the reality is that workers have a lot of power and they are using it, even if it.
I was lucky enough to talk to Josiah Rector of the University of Houston about his amazing new book Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit, published this year.
Starbucks is trying the tactic of closing unionized stores: Starbucks has informed workers at two locations that their stores will be closing, a move that the coffee chain’s union says is retaliation for organizing efforts.The company said the union activity isn’t the reason for the...
This is the grave of William Crocker. Born in 1861 in Sacramento, California, Crocker grew up the son of Charles Crocker, one of the "Big Four" railroad kings of California..
On August 25, 1734, a slave insurrection in St. John was put down with maximum violence, ending nine months of hard-won freedom from slaves and concluding possibly the most important.
This is just devastating. jaimie branch, a trumpeter who combined punk ferocity with advanced technique in her version of improvised music, earning acclaim within and well outside of jazz circles, died on Monday night at her home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y....
This is the grave of Leslie Groves. Born in 1896 in Albany, New York, Groves was the son of an Army chaplain. So they moved around a lot. Dad was.
This is the grave of Justin Morrill. Born in Stafford, Vermont in 1810, Morrill grew up a child of the common schools. That really stuck with him as perhaps no.
Sometimes, we forget just how long film has been around. The first films of the late 19th century could document people that just seem so, so very far removed from the present. So here's an early Edison film of Annie Oakley. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQSTSNq5dOM
This is surely healthy for democracy! A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans.
It seems that the labor market is stabilizing as attacks on inflation start to have an impact. Now, we can debate whether this is a good thing. We can also.