Norman J. Ware, The Labor Movement in the United States 1860-1895: A Study in Democracy.

This book critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions in the United States and offers strategies to build a working-class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The book shows that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response. The chapters examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes.

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Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211035793 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110357

Author(s):

Erin O’Callaghan ◽

Veronica Shepp ◽

Anne Kirkner ◽

Katherine Lorenz

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Labor Movement ◽

Structural Changes ◽

The United States ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Wage Work ◽

Power Differentials ◽

Gender Based

Higher education is not immune to the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States, particularly sexual harassment of graduate workers. This is due largely to power differentials of status and income, as academia relies on low-wage work. While the literature shows sexual harassment is prevalent across disciplines, current work to address the problem does not account for graduate worker precarity. The graduate labor movement, which addresses precarity, is beginning to tackle sexual harassment. We review how the labor and anti-gender-based violence movements in higher education should come together to prevent sexual harassment, presenting recommendations for structural changes to academia.

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Global Master Workman

10.3828/liverpool/9781800859609.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 129-150

Author(s):

Steven Parfitt

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil War ◽

Labor Force ◽

Labor Movement ◽

The United States ◽

Labor Leader ◽

Irish Immigrants ◽

National Border ◽

American Labor Movement ◽

American Labor

This chapter analyzes the story of a transnational figure who hardly ever crossed a national border in his career as labor leader. Terence Powderly (1849-1924) was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, in 1849, to Irish immigrants. He entered the labor force as a switchman for the Delaware and Hudson railroad at the age of 13, as the Civil War raged across the United States, and became a machinists’ apprentice at the age of 17. He was marked out very early as a rising star in the American labor movement, rising quickly in the Machinist and Blacksmith’s Union after joining it in 1871. In 1874, a year after the Panic of ’73 brought economic depression to the United States and forced Powderly west to find work, he joined a relatively new, secret union that he would be associated with for the rest of his life: The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor.

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