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Mapping Child Labor, 1933

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On January 7, 2014
The Department of Labor provided some useful maps in 1933 of the United States' patchwork regulations on child labor. One map. Seems to me that Arkansas was infringing on the freedom of 8 year olds to work given that 4th grade requirement.
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On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward the plant, Ford's private army, led...

Disasters

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On January 11, 2013
Alyssa Battistoni has an interesting and lengthy piece at Jacobin about natural disasters, what will cause us to do something about them, what lessons do we leawrn, and a lot of other things. I think it's been out for a little while, but I just...

Hoover Revisionism

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On January 29, 2009
Josh Marshall is right about Herbert Hoover, and he's right about Jonah Goldberg, the latter of whom is, of course, a buffoon.There's no use reiterating all the ways that Hoover was or was not substantively responsive to the depression. Notwithstanding Goldberg's insistence that Hoover was...
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