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On February 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese government signed the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement" to stop the migration of Japanese to the United States. This came about after the organizing of whites on the west coast against Japanese immigration, as whites steadfastly maintained...

Disabled Workers

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On February 12, 2014

Disabled workers operate in a complicated space within American labor. Many of them are capable of productive labor that helps make their lives better. Employers probably wouldn't hire them without.

Pregnant Worker Rights

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On February 7, 2014
Good news for working women who become pregnant: While New Jersey and New York City were the latest to pass workplace protections for pregnant workers, a new state has taken up the cause: West Virginia. The state has long been mostly purple, but has’t voted...

Musing about the CIO’s Legacy

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On January 30, 2014
I've been reading and rereading some key books of American labor history of late and I have a few thoughts. First on the CIO, after reading Robert Zieger's 1995's book, The CIO, 1935-1955. There's a sort of popular history of the CIO in the progressive...

Hope from Scalia?

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On January 22, 2014

I was feeling pretty hopeless about the forthcoming Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which challenges the constitutionality of states signing closed shop contracts with public sector unions. If.

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