We think of the company store as a relic of the Gilded Age, of one-company towns dominating the lives of their workers. We left this behind with the New Deal, right? Well, we did leave it behind but like the rest of the Gilded Age,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Rich Yeselson with a good overview of how the Supreme Court is likely to eviscerate card check for unions next year: The circuit court panel remanded back to the district.
Really fascinating analysis of the decline of car culture. I tend to believe it to be true, particularly among young people. And I don't think it's an ideological rejection of.
If you haven't read E.J. Graff's personal history of moving from a radical queer activist to "mainstream and married," you owe it to yourself to do so.
The problem with this article on the power that garment factory owners wield in Bangladeshi politics, making the prosecution of owners of factories where workers die almost impossible, is that.
Jim Hudson, who played a key role in the 1969 Super Bowl, has died of Parkinson's related-trauma, likely, as he believed, another victim of the NFL's casual and dismissive response.
In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that killed 1100 garment workers this spring. The labor federation had pushed for such an action...
The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting.
I don't think we can bury the coal industry yet, but this article really suggests an industry on its last legs. Or dying from black lung perhaps. ...In case you.
Language is always changing. I find the organic transformation of language quite fascinating, even when it leads to new forms of language that drive some people crazy, like using the word "grow" in ways such as "growing the economy." I think my support for changing...
In our stories about racial oppression in the United States, Native Americans aren't forgotten, but the legal details of how the government have denied Native American rights usually are ignored..
The Family Research Council has called for a day of action on June 30 against same-sex marriage. They designed a really great logo for it. These people are so ready.