
Tag: labor history

This is the grave of the Haymarket Martyrs. The events of the Haymarket bombing are fairly well known and I’ve written them up, so you can read it for the basic background. Buried in the Haymark
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve been working on my next book, A History of America in Ten Strikes. Well, it’s being published by The New Press in October. Some advance reviews ar

Imagine a scenario with me, if you will. I would like to take my labor history posts and turn them into a website and app that would create the possibility for labor history tourism around the country
Miners coming out of mine shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 Backlist asked me to submit a list of ten books on U.S. labor history I would recommend for a broader audience. It is here, with explanatio

I was asked to provide a write-up of a panel at the Labor and Working Class History Association meeting on the Chicago Teachers Union struggle. It gave me an opportunity to muse a bit about the relati
- Trying to prevent the abuse of athletes
- Stupid Senate rules to deny workers a fair wage
- Homophobia and transophbia remain hard Republican orthodoxy
- Working from seven to eleven every night
- Justice served
- State Failures
- Please come back so we can kick you around some more
- The Gigification of America
- On Food Activism
- Superman in 2021 Rural America