While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
Until yesterday, U.S. steelworkers hadn’t experienced an attack as sweeping as that of 1892.
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.
The level of anti-capitalist sentiment in the US today hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Labor radicals seized that moment to create the pivotal Congress of Industrial Organizations. We should take lessons from their achievements — and their misstep
People have always been fighting to make things better, and that fight has never been easy, but has always been just. Kim Kelly's book chronicles the working-class heroes who were pushed to the margins or simply left out of U.S. labor history.
The capitalist system doesn’t just drive wealth inequality—it is designed to exploit and undermine the working class and to protect the power and economic interests of the wealthy.
The roots of the modern US right lie in the California fields of the 1930s, where large growers ferociously resisted farmworker organizing. It’s a reminder that opposing working-class power has been central to the US right from the very beginning.
“An adequate child program must be made available to every child of working mothers, regardless of race, creed or color.”
This book is a new and innovative look at a pivotal moment in U.S. labor history.
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