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Training future domestic workers, Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, New Jersey Premilla Nadasen has an exciting new book out on the history of domestic worker organizing. I'm looking forward to reading it. Jake Blumgart has an interesting interview with Nadasen, where...
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4679 Dead American Workers

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On September 26, 2015
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor released its preliminary numbers of deaths in American workplaces. 4,679 workers died in 2014, a number that will almost certainly be revised higher (which always happens). That rate is the same as 2013, but the raw number is...
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On September 19, 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company shut down its operations, laying off approximately 4100 workers. This event, which became known as Black Monday, was emblematic of the deindustrialization decimating the Youngstown economy and dooming it and cities like it to long-term...

WAGE Act

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On September 17, 2015

The United States has not passed comprehensive labor law reform that was pro-worker since 1938. 77 years is a long time. Democrats are now proposing a law to change that..

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