This post is a special request from Anna in PDX to help her work out some thorny issues she faces in her local. If this series can be of use to your local or organizing needs, drop me a line. On March 3, 1931, President...
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The Department of Labor provided some useful maps in 1933 of the United States' patchwork regulations on child labor. One map. Seems to me that Arkansas was infringing on the.
One doesn't exactly think of future Reaganite and California Angels owner Gene Autry as a crazy radical, but he did record "The Death of Old Mother Jones" in 1931.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age insurance. FDR signing the Social Security Act. The nation's elderly had long lived with the...
On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union.
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.
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very similar entities, opened fire on the marchers, killing five and wounding more than 60. Henry...
Alyssa Battistoni has an interesting and lengthy piece at Jacobin about natural disasters, what will cause us to do something about them, what lessons do we leawrn, and a lot.
The 1930s: a decade where you could have mainstream cartoons about children going hungry that would resonate with people's experiences. Good times.
Is the UK going to be the next Greece or Iceland? When I moved here in 2003, when times were good economically, I did openly wonder about the sustainability of the British economy. It didn't seem to be based on much more than the City...
Josh Marshall is right about Herbert Hoover, and he's right about Jonah Goldberg, the latter of whom is, of course, a buffoon.There's no use reiterating all the ways that Hoover.