History
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Joshua Freeman: Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve heard comparison after comparison to the Spanish flu of 1918. But, observes SLU professor Joshua Freeman in Jacobin, we rarely hear about the strikes waves that began at the same time. He writes: It is rarely noted that the greatest burst of labor militancy in the history of the…
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Debating the Merits of a Job Guarantee
By Steven Attewell This Labor Day, many people no doubt gave thanks for the low unemployment rate (while perhaps bemoaning wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation). Yet at the same time, at many Democratic Party Labor Day BBQs, presidential candidates and other elected and activists touted proposals for a job guarantee to ensure full…
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Event: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (3/7)
Wednesday, March 7th , 2018 12 pm-1pm The Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., New York, NY Room 18A The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the…
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Prof. Joshua Freeman Talks Taylor Law on the Brian Lehrer Show
On Wednesday, Murphy Prof. Joshua Freeman was on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show along with William Herbert, Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, to talk about the Taylor Law. They discussed the history of the law, 50 years in, and its ramifications for public…
