This engaging interview with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the…
In 1933, union density in the United States stood at a dismal 10 percent, similar to what it is today. From that…
Erik Loomis is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and the author ofĀ A History of America in Ten…
John Womackās labor strategy is about workers finding the capacity to “wound capital to make it yield anything.ā But the massive challenge…
The following is an interview conducted for Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, a Jacobin podcast series produced in collaboration with…
Workers in the Great Depression were beaten down but desperate for change. When a militant new labor federation, the Congress of Industrial…
The United States accounts for only 4 percent of the worldās population, yet Americansā drug use outstrips that of any other country.…
There is something overbearing about politics today. Not that you could ever discuss it at the dinner table without risking a fight,…
With numerous initiative campaignsĀ around the country raising minimum wages, protecting abortion rights, and in the case of Massachusetts’s Fair Share Amendment, taxing…
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