Low-wage workers are in the media spotlight more than normal right now thanks to COVID-19. Lost of our low wage workers have lost their jobs and the unemployment crisis this.
Most of us are probably going to be infected with coronavirus. All these attempts to protect yourself by not touching people or your own face or whatever are almost 100%.
Jill Lepore is arguably the most famous professional historian in America at this point, thanks to her frequent New Yorker columns and now her one-volume history of the United States.
In our current public conversation about jobs, too often the media and the public point back to the era of the unionized factory job as the golden age. In one.
I had the opportunity to review Peter Cole's excellent new book at H-Net and since that's a public resource, I thought I would share the first few paragraphs here: Peter.
I'm always interested to read books hastily written to respond to a crisis a year or two after they are published. How are they dated? How well do they hold.
In the recent history of economic justice, one of the most prominent success stories is the $15 minimum wage in Sea-Tac, Washington. The small town where the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
I have often stated that we are living in a golden age of good academic writing from historians, telling challenging stories that people are ready to hear in ways that.