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Edward Thompson, who died in 1993, will above all forever be remembered as the author of The Making of the English Working…
Cal Winslow
Cal Winslow je umirovljeni suradnik za povijest okoliša na Kalifornijskom sveučilištu Berkeley i direktor je Instituta Mendocino. Školovao se za povjesničara na Antioch Collegeu i Sveučilištu Warwick gdje je studirao pod vodstvom pokojnog Edwarda Thompsona. Koautor je reizdanog Albion's Fatal Tree (Verso 2011). Sedamdesetih godina radio je kao skladištar, vozač kamiona i novinar, sudionik i promatrač pobune običnih radnika desetljeća. Urednik je časopisa Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy and Revolt from bottom During the Long 1970s (Verso, 1970). Predavao je studije rada u Centru za radničko obrazovanje, City College of New York i bio je gostujući viši predavač na Northern Collegeu za obrazovanje odrasle radničke klase u južnom Yorkshireu. Autor je mnogih knjiga, uključujući EP Thompson i stvaranje nove ljevice (Mjesečni pregled 2010.). Njegov najnoviji je Radical Seattle, General Strike of 2014 (Mjesečni pregled, 1919). Živi sa svojom obitelji na obali Mendocino u sjevernoj Kaliforniji. On i njegova supruga, Faith Simon, obiteljska medicinska sestra specijalizirana za pedijatriju, članovi su osnivači Mendocino Parents for Peace i povezani su s Retortom okupljanja Bay Area.
It is forty years ago, in November, since striking United Parcel (UPS) workers, roving pickets, crossed from Pennsylvania into Ohio, closing UPS…
Mell Garcia, Medical Assistant, Talks with Cal Winslow We’re now in nail-biting time for workers at California’s huge HMO, Kaiser Permanente.…
In April, 43,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in California will vote, again, to decide which union will represent them, the Service Employees International…
In a giant step forward for California healthcare workers, two of the nation’s most militant unions have joined forces in the battle…
It is a year now since all hell broke loose in Longview, Washington, an industrial town on the Columbia River, 45 miles…
California’s healthcare workers’ wars continue, in the streets, in collective bargaining and in the courts, at a level of conflict not often…
On December 5, 2011, Znet published my piece, “The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen’s Union.” The article both in its introduction…
Occupy Oakland has called for a “General Strike” on the West Coast docks – a significant escalation in the conflict in the…
The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women)…