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The experience of migration—whether refugee or voluntary—leaves the scar of uprootedness, as the Persian/American poet Esther Kamkar explains.

Stanley Aronowitz died this week at 88. He hated work, loved life, and brought his overflowing, exuberant approach to social problems to picket lines, classrooms, and vacation. A fighting left needs more people like him.

Liz Shuler will serve as the nation’s top union official until summer 2022, when the AFL-CIO’s 50-plus affiliates can gather for their annual convention to vote on a permanent successor.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present a “graphical narrative” of the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

For the labor movement, Rich Trumka’s death is a huge loss. His leadership qualities are a reminder of what the movement will so desperately need to move forward.

A strike that began at a Nabisco factory in Portland, Oregon last week has now spread across the country to Nabisco facilities in Aurora, Colorado, and Richmond, Virginia, where Oreos, Ritz crackers, Chips Ahoy, and other popular cookies.

This book, by two pioneering feminist literary critics, is an attempt, writes reviewer Margolin, "to follow the cultural history of feminism from the movement’s earliest days up to our present time"

While locked in a contentious battle over tech staffers unionizing, Times management’s counsel mistakenly sent its game plan to the union.

Salt has an important and complicated history in Italy—it’s been the cause and casualty of endless wars. When Cervia became part of the Papal States, its salt became “Il Sale dei Papi, salt of the pope.”

For 48 years the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union spoke out for educators and political causes - but the end was brutally swift.