Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 27, 2024
Portside
Beyoncé vs Nashville
Beyoncé vs Nashville
Beyoncé vs Nashville
Looking Back at the Steelworkers Fight Back Campaign – Part 3
Stansbury Forum
3rd in three-part posting on Steelworkers Fightback reform movement in the 1970s. Brown documents issues and personalities that drove the movement of relevance today in understanding and appreciating reform movements underway today.
Global Left Midweek – May 25, 2022
Portside
Chileans rekindle the torch of democracy, and a green wave ousts Australia’s Tories
books
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Publishers Weekly
A deep dig into how the steel industry collapse affected hundreds of thousands of decently paid workers, contrasted with the surge of hospital and nursing home hiring that never matched former pay rates or union protections afforded steel workers.
A Mon Valley Memoir
Portside
Lessons from the last stand of steelworkers in Homestead
Global Left Midweek - Focus on Latin America
Portside
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Bolivia - and Solidarity with Ahwazi Steelworkers
labor
Striking Oil Workers Emerge Victorious Thanks in Part to Green Group Solidarity
Talking Union
Due, in part, to the environmental concerns posed by unsafe refineries, strikers quickly gained the support of green groups.
Purge the Tea Party, Save Democracy
United Steelworkers of America blog
"...time for steel backbones and fierce organizing."
labor
NYC Bridge and Tunnel Bosses Won’t Budge on Foreign Steel
In These Times
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority refused to change its plans to spend $34 million on Chinese steel to repair the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
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