On March 31, 1921, Brookwood Labor College was formed at a labor conference in New York to provide adult education for workers. This is perhaps the most influential of the labor colleges, an important
On March 21, 1877, the National Farmers Alliance was founded. This organization was the foremost avenue of protest for rural labor in the Gilded Age and helped lay the groundwork for the reforms of th
A few years ago, I was asked to speak to a class at Brown about Out of Sight. It was some kind of environmental sustainability course. The students were smart of course and they liked the book, but th
Another day, another worker murdered by the meat industry. A Eufaula man was killed Tuesday afternoon in an industrial accident at the chicken processing plant in Baker Hill, according to Barbour Coun
Starbucks, like most companies, creates all sorts of arrangements to make sure that it doesn’t have too much, or any, responsibility for its workers. One of which is a pretty normal one–th
Donald Trump once again has defeated neoliberalism: The National Labor Relations Board announced a new regulation on Tuesday that makes it harder to challenge companies over their labor practices, pot
Graduate students at UC-Santa Cruz have been engaging in a wildcat strike for some time now and it is coming to collision with the anti-union administration led, of course, by former Obama Cabinet app
The United States has not passed a comprehensive pro-labor bill since the Fair Labor Standards Act, a mere 82 years ago. And I’d say the chances of passing anything in the next decade is nearly