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“There’s No ‘We’ Working Twelves”: Norma Rae Comes to Des Moines

I wanted to write a quick report on an Iowa Labor History Society (ILHS) event here in Des Moines. I should add, the Society hosted another event the same day, in Iowa City, which I wasn’t able to attend. The Iowa City event was a screening of Grapes of Wrath with a Q+A and some discussion of the b…

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12 Sep 2026
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“There’s No ‘We’ Working Twelves”: Norma Rae Comes to Des Moines

I wanted to write a quick report on an Iowa Labor History Society (ILHS) event here in Des Moines. I should add, the Society hosted another event the same day, in Iowa City, which I wasn’t able to attend. The Iowa City event was a screening of Grapes of Wrath with a Q+A and some discussion of the b…

Author: Nate Holdren Source: lawcha.org
Nate Holdren United States Working-class culture Workplace Networking
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13 Sep 2026
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The Role and Limitations of a Research Handbook in Historiography

NTRODUCTION Sven Lindqvist’s book *Gräv där du står* (Dig Where You Stand), written in Sweden in 1978, was published in Turkish nearly half a century later. It had also taken 45 years for the English translation, *Dig Where You Stand*, to be published. Lindqvist offers a practical handbook for wor…

Author: Aziz Çelik Source: academia.edu
Aziz Çelik Turkey Labor history Workers’ inquiry
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11 Sep 2026
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The Horror of Occupation, the Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans Testify on Operation Metro Surge

“I’m taking this risk because I know we have to fight hard to make changes that we need, to make changes that we deserve,” said Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a Minnesota labor organizer who was abducted by ICE on January 9 during Operation Metro Surge. He was giving testimony at the Minnesota Truth Co…

Author: Amie Stager Source: workdaymagazine.org
Amie Stager United States Workplace Networking
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08 Aug 2023
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Lessons in Organizing from The Young Lords

Historian of social movements Johanna Fernández explains what we can learn from the Puerto Rican counterpart to the Black Panther Party. • Current Affairs Johanna Fernández is a historian of social movements and the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History , a deeply researched history of one…

Author: Current Affairs Source: currentaffairs.org
Johanna Fernández United States Young Lords Organizing
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07 Aug 2026
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New thinking about the working class and the road to socialism

Mike Phipps reviews Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain , by Geoff Andrews, published by Yale University Press. One of the salient features of May’s elections – perhaps most sharply expressed in the votes for the Welsh Senedd – was the splintering of Labour’s traditional…

Author: HubMP2012 Source: labourhub.org.uk
United Kingdom TUC Geoff Andrews Strikes
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