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Jun 29
15 min

Laboring Against Racism: The Textile Workers Union of America in the South during the 1960s

[An old student paper.] The conventional understanding of labor unions and their membership in the 1960s is of a conservative and bureauc...

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Jun 16
2 min

Primary sources on Communists and the unemployed during the Great Depression

While writing my PhD dissertation a few years ago ("Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression"), I accumula...

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Jun 13
6 min

Gender norms in a Chilean copper mine

[This was supposed to be a short outline for a student presentation I had to give. So excuse the roughness. Here are more book reviews.] ...

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Dec 9, 2018
4 min

Brief notes on a classic historical work

[Old notes on David Montgomery’s great book Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Ma...

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Jul 27, 2018
3 min

Industrial unionism in the meatpacking industry

Here are old notes of mine on a very good book by the historian Roger Horowitz, “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of ...

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Jul 22, 2016
5 min

The meatpacking industry; or, hell on earth

Here are some excerpts from a review article of a book I’m reading called Slaughterhouse (1997), by Gail Eisnitz: [....] The agony starts...

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Aug 10, 2015
4 min

The making of the working class

I'm finally reading [in 2011] E. P. Thompson’s classic The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Query: why was England so impervio...

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Sep 22, 2014
14 min

U.S. labor history

Power-structures never want people to remember history, because knowledge empowers. Knowledge of how the oppressed have won victories, or...

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