working class history

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/6/2021
  

  The Age of Care (Review of Gabriel Winant's "The Next Shift")

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein says Gabriel Winant's book on the rise of the care industry is the story of community change in the last 50 years, with union retiree health care dollars reabsorbed by capital through the treatment of diseases of despair provoked by deindustrialization (with care provided by a workforce of women and people of color).

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• SOURCE: FrankNews
  3/26/2021
  

  Interview: A Rich Man's War, A Poor Man's Fight

  Historian Keri Leigh Merritt, interviewed about the history of labor organizing in the South, links the history of Southern policing to the maintenance of exploitative labor practices after the Civil War and explains how the fight to unionize Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama facility extends the politics of the Civil Rights Movement.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/19/2021
  

  The Triangle Fire and the Fight for $15

  by Christopher C. Gorham

  The Triangle Shirtwaist fire inspired workplace safety regulation and advanced the cause of organized labor. It's time to remember the victims with a commitment to a federal living wage law.

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• SOURCE: Folklife
  3/1/2021
  

  “Making a Living by the Sweat of Her Brow”: Hazel Dickens and a Life of Work

  by Emily Hilliard

  "Hazel’s song catalog is often divided into separate categories of personal songs, women’s songs, and labor songs. But in her view and experience, these issues all bled together; her songs address struggle against any form of domination and oppression, whether of women, workers, or herself."

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• 2/21/2021
  

  From Red Finn Halls to The Lincoln Brigade: Class Formation on Washington’s “Red Coast”

  by Jerry Lembcke

  If the current crisis revives interest in class as an analytical concept, a recent book on union organizing on the Washington state coast offers a model for reconstructing the work, community and social life of a community. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/10/2020
  

  The Wages of Whiteness (Review Essay)

  Hari Kunzru's review essay examines the current vogue for white antiracism (and antiracist training) through the history of whiteness as a political and academic concept, concluding that many  of the most popular books and multicultural pieties strip the idea of its structural elements and reduce it to a question of personal purification. 

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• SOURCE: St. Paul Union Advocate
  5/4/2020
  

  Lessons from Labor History can Inform our Labor Movement During COVID-19 Crisis

  by Peter Rachleff

  The story of the 1934 Twin Cities' Teamsters strike story shows how the union won better lives for its members by linking workers and their families to the union, other unions, and the community.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/23/2020
  

  Malcolm Chase, 1957-2020

  The social historian Malcolm Chase rejected “the enormous condescension of posterity” often to be found in history written by the educated rich.