Category Archives: Issues

Deindustrialization as a Template for COVID-19

Posted on May 18, 2020 by

As we wrote in Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown, Youngstown’s story is America’s story. That’s true now as we try to imagine American life after the pandemic. No doubt, coronavirus is a natural disaster that is more contagious, widespread, … Continue reading →

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“People Ain’t Gonna Come to Work if They Don’t Feel Safe”

Posted on May 11, 2020 by

If you live in Iowa, you get to see a little bit of how the sausage is made, so to speak, especially if it’s pork. It’s a common occurrence to see long semi-truck trailers on the highways, with round pink … Continue reading →

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Fishing Industry Workers Struggle to Beat Long Odds

Posted on May 4, 2020 by

A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re seeing signs of worry about the food supply. Meatpacking plants have closed due to high rates of infection among workers. Farmers plow crops under and pour thousands of gallons of milk down … Continue reading →

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May Day 2020: Workers in the Pandemic Time

Posted on April 27, 2020 by

Around the world, the first of May, is generally celebrated as a public holiday.  May Day’s origins go back to 1886, when 300,000 U.S. workers in 13,000 businesses laid down their tools in a general strike, joining 40,000 in Chicago … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 Is a Perfect Storm for Women Workers

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

America’s women workers have been living in a straw house perched high on a cliff, and COVID-19 is the perfect storm.  Though research reveals that men are more likely to succumb to the virus, women will be disproportionately devastated by … Continue reading →

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The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later

Posted on April 13, 2020 by

April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the crime that propelled Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti into the international media spotlight: the robbery and double murder at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company Factory in South Braintree, … Continue reading →

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Working-Class People Hold Society Together: Class and COVID-19

Posted on April 6, 2020 by

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted class inequalities. Commentators in the US, UK, and Australia are acknowledging that working-class people are more likely to suffer as a result of both the virus and the measures put in place to contain its … Continue reading →

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