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- 1From:The Christian Century (Vol. 139, Issue 5)Richard Smith, an Episcopal priest, has been working to improve the lot of workers in California long enough to have protested alongside Cesar Chavez in the 1970s during the lettuce strike, when Smith was a Jesuit...
- 2From:The EconomistAmerican companies are working out how to respond to a trade-union revival A SKED WHAT labour wanted, Samuel Gompers, founding president of the American Federation of Labour in the late 1800s, is often quoted as...
- 3From:Briarpatch (Vol. 51, Issue 6)Indigenous people have always been active in labour struggles, both as part of the wider labour movement and as members of their own communities. Prior to invasion, Native labour had already been integrated into the...
- 4From:The EconomistEvidence for the "great resignation" is thin on the ground A S THE EFFECTS of the Spanish flu waned in 1919, Seattle's workers agitated. Many were fed up with long hours and poor pay, especially at a time of high...
- 5From:The American Conservative (Vol. 20, Issue 2)This is the story of a forgotten march on Washington that never made it to the federal city. It rates barely a footnote even in regional histories, although the Marxist novelist William Cunningham fictionalized it in...
- 6From:The EconomistHopes for an increase in unionisation in Silicon Valley may be overblown THE DECLINE of labour-union membership since the late 20th century across America and Europe has been worrying for those who fret about rising...
- 7From:History Review (Issue 53)The history of trade unions in the USA is littered with examples of appalling violence. The first truly nationwide strike, the railroad strike of 1877, set the pattern for labour-related violence, leaving 26 dead in...
- 8From:The Journal of Employee Assistance (Vol. 50, Issue 4)While the first EAPs appeared in workplace during the 1970s, the existence of related workplace employee outreach efforts date from the turn of the 20th century. While not necessarily linked through later efforts...
- 9From:The Progressive (Vol. 83, Issue 3)In 1905, a small group of leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, members of other unions, and socialists had gathered in Chicago to implement a big idea. They saw a vast nation of American workers, and indeed...
- 10From:Economic & Political WeeklyByline: Babu Mathew, Chirayu Jain Babu Mathew (babumathewtu@gmail.com) is the programme coordinator for Masters of Public Policy at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Chirayu Jain...
- 11From:The New Yorker (Vol. 90, Issue 8)HUNGER ARTIST How Cesar Chavez disserved his dream. The history of California is a history of will grafted onto the landscape. First came missionaries, building churches out of clay and meting out God's kingdom to...
- 12From:New Internationalist (Issue 309)IF it is true, as historian Eric Hobsbawm says, that labour spent the first half of the nineteenth century learning the rules of the capitalist game and the second half applying them, then the first half of the...
- 13From:State Magazine (Issue 649)October 29 marked 100 years since the United States hosted the first International Labor Conference (ILC), the annual high-level meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) held in Washington. The Treaty of...
- 14From:America (Vol. 208, Issue 3)In the mid-20th-century United States, about a third of all workers belonged to a union. Today, however, only about 12 percent of American workers are union members. Mass public opinion has taken an anti-union turn. In...
- 15From:The Progressive (Vol. 73, Issue 4)Without organization the wage-workers are helpless victims of the industrial forces that are seeking their own self-interest. The right to organize is a sham, a trick, a deceit, unless it carries with it the right to...
- 16From:Pennsylvania Legacies (Vol. 14, Issue 1)The dawn of the 20th century brought with it the creation of the world's first billion-dollar corporation: United States Steel. The steel industry stood as the foremost example of American industrial dominance and...
- 17From:New Statesman (Vol. 136, Issue 4844)The New Statesman 27 November 1981 The government has renewed its open war on the trade union movement, from which it appeared to have retreated slightly when faced with the realities of industrial relations. In...
- 18From:Post (Vol. 32, Issue 9)Cesar Chavez is often credited with transforming the US labor movement by organizing the first farm workers' union. But lesser known is Dolores Huerta, a rebel, activist, feminist and mother of 11, who tirelessly led...
- 19From:Nation's Business (Vol. 75)America's economy was far from robust as Nation's Business' second quarter-century got under way in 1937, but ingenious business people were managing to survive and even thrive. John M. Pine had auto dealerships in...
- 20From:The Economist (Vol. 429, Issue 9113)O'Leary, we're weary Skill shortages are empowering transport unions in Europe RUNNING an airline used to be a sure-fire way to lose money. Warren Buffett once joked that the best thing a clairvoyant could have...