Remember the West, Texas factory explosion. It's been 2 weeks and the story has almost completely disappeared from the media while CNN continued its 24-hour coverage of the latest details in the Boston Marathon bombings at least until late last week. The lack of follow-up...
Author: Erik Loomis
The title for greatest beard in American history goes to one Peter Cooper, 1876 Greenback Party candidate for president. I don't see how the competition for this title even comes.
I was on the Alternet Radio Hour with Joshua Holland on Saturday, talking Texas, Bangladesh, and my joyous past with right-wingers trying to get me fired. Turns out the more.
On May 6, 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Although not often seen by the general public as part of our labor history, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first legislative victory for organized labor in this country. It generated out...
I recently rewatched Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I was confirmed in my opinion that this is the greatest American film about work and class. The early scenes in the factory.
For all the talk we've been giving the late great George Jones here, we shouldn't forget the nearly equally talented Tammy Wynette. I think overall Tammy's potential was not quite.
Historian Jefferson Cowie tells the following story in his outstanding book on the decline of labor and the transformation of the white working class, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. In 1979, a reporter asked International Association of Machinists...
George Jones was laid to rest yesterday. In his honor, one more great song by the Possum.
When we think of labor, we probably don't really think of the Sherpas, who guide climbers up Mt. Everest and other high Himalayan peaks. But in fact, the climbers often.
On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin created the first workers compensation program, followed almost immediately by Washington and most of the Northwestern states. This was the beginning of a system, albeit quite limited even now, to compensate workers properly when they are injured or killed on...
This is good old school David Brooks-era Weekly Standard: For the last few years, America has experienced a revival in swing dancing. Big bands and young neo-swing “jump and jive”.
The NRA has a new president. He is very special. Jim Porter is an Alabama lawyer. He is also a neo-Confederate Obama-hater who talks about "the war of northern aggression,".