labor history
Black workers’ struggles inform labor history
March 4, 2022Yesterday and today, uplifting Black workers ‘transforms misery and despair into hope and progress.’
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Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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The time Rich Trumka brought 1,500 miners to Greenwich, Conn.
August 24, 2021When AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka passed away recently, it brought back memories of our first encounter in Connecticut in 1989.
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Organizing is a necessity: A political history of the Hamilton Unemployed Union
August 24, 2021In the summer of 1981, Canada’s economy was in a recession, with unemployment hitting 11%. It didn't seem like the best time to try and organizer workers.
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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders
August 9, 2021As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.
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