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Today in labor history: Suffragette socialist Sylvia Pankhurst dies in 1960
September 27, 2012Most people don't realize that a legendary suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, lived well into the mid-20th century.
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Polls show Romney’s ship running aground
September 26, 2012The Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS News poll of likely voters released today, taken entirely after Mitt Romney's 47% remarks, show his campaign running aground.
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Lax rules letting drillers pollute the earth
September 26, 2012The methods are controversial enough. But activists have pointed out that oil and gas drilling have a nasty side effect.
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Today in labor history: First Model T leaves the assembly line
September 26, 2012The problems of speedup and other dangerous assembly line practices were skewered in Charlie Chaplin's classic film "Modern Times."
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Romney’s plane window flub shows his head’s in the clouds
September 26, 2012The next time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boards a plane, he'd like to be able to roll his window down.
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