Class & Labor

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Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.
What's in a Name?
Cover of Conspirator: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport.
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Rosie Castro with her sons, Joaquín, left, and Julián, April 23, 2006 (ZUMA Wire/San Antonio Express-News/Helen L. Montoya)
No Julian Castro without Mother Rosie Castro
This detail from an illustration in a 1911 Industrial Workers of the World publication depicts a class of workers struggling to hold up finely dressed elites while they drink and dine.
From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics
Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920.
The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America
Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style
Demonstrators in steadily falling snow outside of the Wisconsin Capitol building.
Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse
1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.
“Party Like It’s 1892!”
Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).
Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur
The Industrial Workers of the World poster "Pyramid of Capitalist System" (1911).
Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times
President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.
A New New Deal Must Be For All
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
Another Great Depression?
Mikhail Bakunin speaking to members of the International Workingmen's Association at the Basel Congress in 1869.
Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act as MLK and other civil rights leaders look on.
Can today’s candidates revive Martin Luther King’s “shattered dreams”?
American flag on fire.
Populism and Anti-Americanism in Modern Latin America
Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers
Thomas Jefferson
The Road to a New American Aristocracy
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.
Written With the Blood of Miners
Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.
What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa
El 5 de julio por S. Davies, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
What’s Really At Stake in the Venezuelan Election
Poster that says, "Resist," at a Yale University anti-draft rally in 1968.
The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.
Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?
Evo Morales in 2006.
Once More, Bolivians Seek Independence
A homeless man outside the outside the United Nations building in New York with the American flag in the background.
A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty