Labor

The history of work in the last three centuries has been a history of exploitation and slow gains. But the biggest of…

Its brown trucks and uniforms are now a ubiquitous presence on our streets. United Parcel Service, better known as…

"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists. In yet another volume, Albert…

Primo Tapia de la Cruz (1885–1926) was born into the indigenous Tarascan community of Naraja, Mexico. While working as…

Contrary to popular belief, the US prison system isn't a rehabilitative step to a safer world, or an altruistic desire…

August 10 is Prison Justice Day. PJD started in Canada in 1976 to pay tribute to prisoners who died in prison. On this…

A document of how chain bookstores wrecked the industry for everyone, especially readers and book lovers, by the man who…

The first People's History poster about New Zealand! The New Zealand Federation of Labor, the Red Feds, was the first…

Like Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl, Michelle Tea's Rent Girl is an illustrated novel about a young dyke's…

This poster, part of the Celebrate People's History series, depicts the workers of the Republic Windows and Doors…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

Author Ben Hamper worked in an auto-assembly plant in the late 1970s and here he tells the full tale of that era. From…

On February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers didn't clock in, and stayed out of work for six days of nonviolent…

Having returned home in 494 BC after fighting to defend their country, the Plebians of Rome found the Aristocracy had…

Bobby Seale is perhaps most famous for uncovering in the 1960s that it was legal for Americans to carry loaded assault…

Are you ready for a Bring-Your-Reader-To-Work Day? Speaking from her own experiences as an electrician, Kahla Lichti's…