Class Struggle Anarchist 4/14/13 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/14/13

Capitalism is not Voluntary

The wage system coerces workers into selling our labor; it is not freedom.

Class Struggle Anarchist 12/12/09 Class Struggle Anarchist 12/12/09

Coke’s International War on Workers

The Coca-Cola Company uses outsourcing to drive wages down, shuts down plants for unionizing, fires (and sometimes murders) workers for joining unions, and pays poverty wages wherever it can get away with it.

Class Struggle Anarchist 8/23/09 Class Struggle Anarchist 8/23/09

Fighting Back

There is a fundamental conflict of interest between workers and employers. Workers must organize and fight back.

Class Struggle Anarchist 12/15/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 12/15/08

Towards a Global History of the Early IWW

Understanding the history of the Industrial Workers of the World requires taking a global view. The common approach of looking only at the union’s US history, or looking at it only in one country, is inadequate and obscures transnational patterns.

Class Struggle Anarchist 2/20/08 Class Struggle Anarchist 2/20/08

Early Reparations Movements

Review of My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Francis Berry

Class Struggle Anarchist 11/18/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 11/18/07

Class Struggle and the Jute-Mill Workers of Bengal

Critique of Rethinking Working-Class History by Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Class Struggle Anarchist 11/6/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 11/6/07

Cotton Mill Workers in the Southern U.S.

Review of Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al.

Class Struggle Anarchist 10/24/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 10/24/07

Coal Mining in the Ottoman Empire

Review of Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire by Donald Quataert.

Class Struggle Anarchist 10/2/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 10/2/07

Origins of the English Proletariat

Review of The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/30/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/30/07

Labor Unions and Telephone Operators

Review of four books on the history of telephone operators in the US.

Class Struggle Anarchist 4/21/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 4/21/07

The Collapse of the Knights of Labor

The Knights of Labor grew to become the largest nineteenth-century labor union in the US after winning a major railroad strike in 1885. It then collapsed due to intense, sometimes violent, opposition from employers and the state.

Class Struggle Anarchist 3/20/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 3/20/07

Suppression of Radical Unionism in the US

Review of “The Rise and Repression of Radical Labor” by Daniel Fusfeld

Class Struggle Anarchist 3/5/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 3/5/07

Black Railroad Workers in America

Review of “Brotherhoods of Color” by Eric Arnesen

Class Struggle Anarchist 2/23/07 Class Struggle Anarchist 2/23/07

In Labor’s Cause

Review of David Brody’s book on the main themes in the history of American workers.

Class Struggle Anarchist 12/7/06 Class Struggle Anarchist 12/7/06

Domestic Servants and the Color Line

Overview of academic literature on the history of domestic servants in the US.

Class Struggle Anarchist 9/12/06 Class Struggle Anarchist 9/12/06

Working-class Agency

Workers are not unthinking robots who blindly respond to stimuli.

Class Struggle Anarchist 2/17/05 Class Struggle Anarchist 2/17/05

Three Conservative Locals

A history of three union locals in early 1900s Montana. The divergent evolution of each local is explained by class struggle, ethnic strife, and conflicts within the capitalist class.