West Virginia Teachers Call on All State Employees to Join Them At State House Tomorrow

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  Strike for America

  by Micah Uetricht

  The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda fo...
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  Class War

  by Megan Erickson

  In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providin...
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  It Started in Wisconsin

  Afterword by Michael Moore

  Introduction by John Nichols

  Contributions by Patrick Barrett, Mary Bottari, Roger Bybee, Ruth Conniff, Gary Dumm, Frank Emspak, Simon Hardy, Ashok Kumar, Tom Morello, David Poklinkowski, Matthew Rothschild, Sharon Rudahl, Charity A. Schmidt, Kim Scipes and Nick Thorkelson

  Edited by Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle

  In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings—and p...
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  Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

  by Jane McAlevey and Bob Ostertag

  In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than ...
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  The Death and Life of American Labor

  by Stanley Aronowitz

  Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that...
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  US Labor in Trouble and Transition

  by Kim Moody

  US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnershi...