By Daniel GrossOriginally posted on Counterpunch To add insult to injury, the corporate agents in government, also known as politicians,…
Labor Studies
The Employee Free Choice Act Debate
By Daniel GrossJuly 1st, 2009 From the perspective of the corporate CEOs and their special interest front groups, EFCA is…
Rebel Voices reviewed in Labor Studies Journal
by William A. PelzLabor Studies JournalJune 2012 37: 236-237 Born in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) at…
Staughton Lynd reviews Rebel Voices
by Staughton LyndIndustrial WorkerDecember 2011 The first words the reader of this book will see are by IWW member and…
Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks: The IWW uses Section 7, with co-author Staughton Lynd
By Daniel Gross July 23rd, 2008 Many proposals to solve the labor movement’s problems are on the table. There is…
The real meaning of May Day has been obscured by the designing propaganda of the American and Soviet governments: ROAR Magazine
ROAR Magazine The real meaning of May Day has been obscured by the designing propaganda of the American and Soviet…
Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: A Review
by Alan BrookeThe Luddite BicentenaryNovember 14th, 2012 The bicentenary of the Luddite risings has produced disappointingly little new academic research…
Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! in Booklist
By Diego BáezBooklistAugust 14th, 2014 Brecher’s riveting primer on modern American labor history catalogs U.S. workers’ movements from the railroad…
The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
Originally posted on CounterpunchApril 28th, 2014 Forty years ago I published a study of peak periods of American labor conflict…
Union Victory at Starbucks
By Daniel GrossCounterpunchJanuary 14, 2011 Three years ago, union baristas at Starbucks made a simple demand of the world’s largest…