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The Low-Wage 100

Sarah Anderson CounterPunch
Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations.

Orwell As Advocate for Workers and Against Exploitation

Mark Satta The Conversation
That George Orwell, famous as the author Animal Farm and 1984, came to his ideas about freedom via his thinking about work, poverty and democratic socialism, among other themes, may surprise those familiar with only his dystopian fiction

This Week in People’s History, Aug 27-Sep 2, 2025

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The cover of the 1950 Red Channels blacklist-promoting pamphlet Show-Business Witchhunters Hit Paydirt (1950), Jim Crow Justice, Ugly as Sin (1955), Los Angeles Deputies Sow Deadly Chaos (1970), Like a Rolling Stone (1965), What’s In a Name? (2015), This Land Is Your Land . . . (1945), Familiar Sentiments (1945)
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