Neil Irwin had a piece on the disconnect between media coverage of the economy and the economy as actually experienced by everyday Americans: If your entire understanding of the economy.
On September 19, 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company shut down its operations, laying off approximately 4100 workers. This event, which became known as Black Monday, was emblematic of.
The United States has not passed comprehensive labor law reform that was pro-worker since 1938. 77 years is a long time. Democrats are now proposing a law to change that..
OSHA just faces a hard row to hoe in implementing silica standards or anything else. The reality is that OSHA has been battered between the political winds ever since its.
On September 11, 1851, African-Americans and abolitionist whites in Christiana, Pennsylvania engaged in violent resistance against a posse of slave catchers riding up from Maryland to retrieve fugitive slaves in.
At RI Future, I reviewed Cedric de Leon's new book The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. An excerpt. Scholars are beginning to rethink the Gilded.
Rather than blog a bunch about Labor Day I took to Twitter, where I wrote a Twitter essay and a bunch of follow up stuff about my views on the.
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the.
