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This Week in People’s History, July 10–16

Portside
Cartoon about management's bad attitude toward job safety
No Job Is Worth Dying For (1974), Two Big Nights of Folk Music (1959), How Long Can a Stone Roll? (1962), The Hate That Hate Produced (1959), Long Live the 14th of July! (1789), No Nukes in Africa! (2009), A Freedom-Rider Long Before Her Time (1854)

Workers Need New Heat Protections Immediately

Alex N. Press Jacobin
The Biden administration has proposed a desperately needed new heat standard to protect workers from scorching temperatures. Expect business groups to oppose it.