Erik Loomis
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Erik Loomis is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. He specializes in the labor and environmental history of the United States, the history of capitalism and global trade regimes, and the American West. He is the author of A History of America in Ten Strikes (The New Press, 2018), Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe (The New Press, 2015).
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Additional Writing:
“Nostalgia for the American Logger,” The Nation, May 13, 2025.
“Chronicles of Collapse,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 11, 2024.
“Preserving Public Lands,” The American Prospect, September 26, 2024.
“Cooling Tensions in a Warming World,” Boston Review, August 28, 2024.
“Biden’s Labor Report Card,” The Conversation, May 16, 2024.
“Railroad Unions and Their Employers at an Impasse,” The Conversation, November 22, 2022.
“White Nationalism, The Working Class, and Organized Labor,” New Labor Forum, 29, no 1, Spring 2020
“What White Kids Learn About Race in School,” Boston Review, September 12, 2019
“Is a General Strike What’s Needed to End the Shutdown?” The Atlantic, January 25, 2019
“Serving Time Should Not Mean Prison Slavery,” The New York Times, August 30, 2018
“The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade,” Boston Review, August 7, 2018
“The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee,” The New York Times, April 25, 2018
“Democrats and Labor: Frenemies Forever,” Boston Review, April 18, 2017.
“A Left Vision for Trade,” Dissent, Winter 2017.
“The Unions Betraying the Left,” The New Republic, February 6, 2017.
“Towards a Working-Class Environmentalism,” The New Republic, December 5, 2016.
“The Perils of a Partisan NLRB,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, October 11, 2016.
“Great Exploitations,” Boston Review, August 29, 2016.
“Our Own Private Disaster,” Boston Review, November 19, 2015.