Tag Archives: Labor History

BOOKS / Covering for the Bosses : Labor and the Southern Press

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Dixie Media Versus Unions How Southern media have strengthened the region’s corporatocracy. By Roger Bybee / August 26, 2009 [Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press by Joseph B. Atkins, 224 pp, University Press of Mississippi, July 1, … Continue reading →

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Labor Day: Stop Corporate Bullying of Employees

Posted on September 1, 2008 by RagBlog

Labor Day 2008: Support Employee Free ChoiceBy Michael Honey / September 1, 2008 Labor Day 2008 marks a moment of crisis for middle and working-class Americans. Housing, health care, transportation, education and job needs are growing acute in an economy … Continue reading →

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Critiquing the Human Family

Posted on August 11, 2008 by RagBlog

See “EdgeLeft: Taking China’s Side” by David McReynolds below It Was a Good Reminder for MeBy Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2008 Since my family came from Germany (my mom’s side in 1631; my dad’s in … Continue reading →

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Social Change in America : Learning from History

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Populist handbills. A flyer informing workers of a meeting that was to end in the Haymarket Riotof 1886. Police were called in when fighting broke out between striking workers and strikebreakers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Haymarket, Illinois. … Continue reading →

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