The History and Possible Futures of an American Steel Town
McKeesport, Pennsylvania has been through two Great Depressions. Its recovery from the first holds lessons for today.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania has been through two Great Depressions. Its recovery from the first holds lessons for today.
On Chicago's southwest side, activists say a massive new distribution center needs to benefit the community.
Before my junior year of college, in 1972, I worked at the manufacturing plant where my father was a foreman. It was an education.
Amid declining union power and attacks on organized labor, some Rust Belt workers are turning to worker-owned cooperatives.
In 2018, a West Virginia teacher’s secret Facebook group sparked a "union renaissance” in the tradition of Mother Jones.
Excerpted from "An Alternative History of Pittsburgh."
"I heard the dreams of a revisionist age, / the once upon a time / of a land strong in industry."
The strike, which helped guide the UAW to prominence in the twentieth century, provides a blueprint for better working conditions and a revival of the middle class.
COVID-19 put a spotlight on worker vulnerability, but creates challenges for traditional in-person organizing tactics.
An excerpt from "Citizen Reporters."
Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won't be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
A tour of Milwaukee's conflicted Grohmann Museum. From "The Milwaukee Anthology."