This is the grave of Hazen Pingree. Born in Denmark, Maine in 1840, Pingree went to the local common schools, dropped out at age 14, and worked in a cotton factory in the town of Saco, Maine. Then he got a job at a shoe...
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I am just shocked that these tremendously moral people are liars and hypocrites... Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's (D) office has charged former state representative Lee Chatfield (R) — who.
Greg Sargent has a good piece in the Post thinking through what it means for Michigan to overturn its right to work law. Specifically, what does this signal about the.
Michigan is on the verge of repealing its right to work law, returning the state to those that have a basic respect for workers' rights. I, among other historians, talked to Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo about the significance of this action. In 1946,...
It's hard to convince workers that Democrats really care about them when they don't actually do anything for unions. Yeah, there's lots of lip service, but even when they have.
The Michigan prison system responds to diversity exactly like you would expect a bunch of fascists to react. Officials in prison systems across the United States have banned certain books.
For the latest LGM podcast, I interviewed Alford Young, Edgar G. Epps Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, about his 2020 book From the Edge of the Ghetto: African-Americans and the World of Work. This is a fascinating case study of Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
DORAL, FL - OCTOBER 23: Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump attends a campaigns rally In Florida at the Trump National Doral on October 23, 2015 in Doral, Florida. Trump.
The Johnstown Flood happened in 1889 when an elite hunting club led by the vile capitalist Henry Clay Frick and frequented by other lovely people such as Andrew Carnegie and.
On April 19, 1911, furniture makers in Grand Rapids, Michigan went on strike to protest the terrible wages and working conditions that defined their lives. This strike would also show the toxicity of certain Protestant sects toward the American worker struggle and the interaction between...
Our post-racial society is pretty great. A 14-year-old boy nearly lost his life after being shot at while trying to stop at a home in Rochester Hills, Mich., to ask.
Every time you think the Flint water crisis and the response of the state of Michigan couldn't get any worse, you find out that it can always get worse. Melissa.