Sarah Jaffe has a typically excellent piece at The Progressive discussing whether we are presently in a moment akin to the development of the CIO in the mid 30s. I.
A quick announcement. Each year, the National Humanities Center has a series of online speakers on various topics, mostly historical but not exclusively. On Thursday at 7 eastern, I am.
This is the grave of David Montgomery. Born in 1927, Montgomery grew up pretty well off, joined the Army Corps of Engineers shortly after World War II, working on the.
Ten years ago today, new to this blog, I decided to start a series called "This Day in Labor History." The first post was on the Homestead Strike in 1892..
This is the grave of the Haymarket Martyrs. The events of the Haymarket bombing are fairly well known and I've written them up, so you can read it for the.
As I've mentioned in the past, I've been working on my next book, A History of America in Ten Strikes. Well, it's being published by The New Press in October..
Imagine a scenario with me, if you will. I would like to take my labor history posts and turn them into a website and app that would create the possibility.
Miners coming out of mine shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 Backlist asked me to submit a list of ten books on U.S. labor history I would recommend for a broader.
