For several generations, David Montgomery has had the legendary status of a labor historian who transformed the field, at least the labor history of the USA.
Between 1935 and 1939, the New Deal-sponsored Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions nationwide, reaching an audience of 30 million. It was an early target of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC).
The greatest sin of Reagan is not its (expectedly) warped worldview, but its total lack of drama.
Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.
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A New Model for Worker-Led Organizing
Until yesterday, U.S. steelworkers hadn’t experienced an attack as sweeping as that of 1892.
“All those who care about the lives of seafarers – or a global supply chain that keeps its workers safe – must call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Peace is the best way to end the attacks on ships in the Red Sea."
The strike comes as 40,000 Unite Here hotel workers across 20 cities face expiring contracts this year. Negotiations for new four-year contracts have been taking place since May; about 15,000 of those workers have authorized strikes in 12 markets.
UTLA’s transformation story surfaces critical lessons that respond to the most important question facing the labor movement today: How do we ensure that the recent years of labor upsurge across economic sectors becomes durable, transformative power?
A close look at data suggests unions could be doing a lot more to organize and build the labor movement in this moment.
Trump insists he's not weird and tells the audience they have to vote for him even if they don't like him
Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s
The Gods of Olympus are just one big, dysfunctional family — unaware that mortals have the power to bring them down
We now know the upcoming schedule for new evidence in the Donald Trump DC trial
Examine the myth of the benevolent dictator, a leader who holds absolute power yet only uses it for the common good.
Hasan has some follow up questions for the Senator
The Gaza Sunbirds are a team of paracyclists from Gaza, set up in 2020 by cyclist Alaa al-Dali after he was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper during the Great March of Return in 2018
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