Class Struggle/Supply Chains, Seattle, December 28 Class Struggle Along Global Supply Chains, Parts III. In this installment in Seattle, we will give a presentation and facilitate a collective…
Zines and underground comics of the 1980s and 1990s A blogpost about various 'zines, underground comics and alternative publications I was exposed to during the late 1980s and 1990s.
Journal of an early labor organizer An article by Philip Foner introducing the journal of an 1840s labor organizer from New England.
Coming Full Circle: Creating a Three-Pronged Housing Justice Strategy Direct action is at the center of the housing justice, but what do we need to see a movement that is…
Racial conflict and racial solidarity in the Alabama coal strike of 1894: new evidence for the Gutman-Hill debate - Alex Lichtenstein Alex Lichtenstein looks at the issue of race in an Alabama coal strike.
Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: the Gompers era An essay about the AFL and how they handled dissidents.
Organized labor and the black worker in the 1970s - Philip S. Foner An essay by Philip S. Foner about the relation between the AFL-CIO unions and Black Americans in the 1970s.
Documents of the Knights of Labor Letters from the South Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, revealing that the color line still remained a serious problem, and that the Knights did not succeed in breaking down the wall separating white and black. They also throw light on some of the special problems facing the KoL when it moved into the South.
A CIO organizer in Alabama, 1941 Reports from an organizer involved in efforts to organize a Goodyear plant in Alabama in 1941.
Toward a history of the CIO: a bibliographical report An essay by Robert H. Zieger on some of the various writings on the CIO up to 1985.
A martyr to his cause: the scenario of the first labor film in the United States The background and script to A Martyr to His Cause, the first labor film, made in 1911 in defense of the McNamara brothers,who were accused of bombing the Los Angeles Times during a labor dispute.