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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/18/2023
  

  Child Labor is Back; History Says Don't be Surprised

  by Beth English

  In an effort to attract investment from key industries, state governments in the south actively rescinded existing laws banning child labor, showing that there has been no straight line of progress on the issue. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/22/2022
  

  Is Environmental Damage Really Sabotage by Capital?

  by R.H. Lossin

   The term "capitalist sabotage" describes intentional destructive activity in service of profit, and is a more accurate label than "accident" or "unintended consquence" for the environmental change that will cause a million unnecessary deaths a year over the coming decades. 

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  5/30/2022
  

  Gordon Parks's Photos Show the Labor Keeping Weapons of World War II Greased

  Gordon Parks's photographs showed the humanity of the workers in the nation's massive war mobilization, notably at a Pittsburgh grease plant. 

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  12/9/2021
  

  The Industrial Infrastructure Catastrophe Hanging Over the Gulf Coast

  The flooding and destruction of the refineries and storage facilities along 52 miles of the Houston Ship Channel is a matter of if, not when, says environmental lawywer Jim Blackburn. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12/8/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due 75 Years After the End of World War II

  This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy.