labor history
The too-large-for-life longshore leader Harry Bridges
March 21, 2023Who else in labor, apart from outright gangsters and the more numerous corrupt bigshots, had successfully evaded prosecution by U.S. administrations and the FBI for generations?
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Revival of Bracero Program is the wrong path to take
July 7, 2022Workers are not dispensable items to throw away when they are used up.
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How to organize a union: ‘The Porter’ and Black service industry militancy
July 6, 2022A joint production of the public Canadian Broadcasting Company and BET+, 'The Porter,' about the organization of the first Black union in North America, is exactly the series we need right now.
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Tucson observes César Chávez Holiday with vigil for pandemic victims
April 4, 2022United Farm Workers founder remembered, along with those lost to COVID-19.
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Philip Foner completes his multi-volume U.S. labor history with the Great Depression
March 29, 2022Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of...
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