In September 1917, Ohio Governor James M. Cox—soon to be the Democratic nominee for president in 1920—marked Labor Day with a lengthy…
Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant is assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. His book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, came out in 2021.
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Unionby Daisy PitkinAlgonquin Books, 2022, 288…
A funeral scene, 1976: “When we emerged as radicals,” the eulogist observes, “there wasn’t much of a left tradition to plug into.…
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a partnership between socialists and the United Electrical Workers union, is trying to be at the heart of a new mass labor resurgence
Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement