Labor Unions

<p><span class="deck">BLOOD FLOWED IN THE PERENNIALLY TROUBLESOME COALFIELDS IN 1921, WHEN THOUSANDS OF MINERS DECIDED THEIR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The great sit-down strike that transformed American industry</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">At a time of crisis for American labor, an organizer looks back on the turbulent 50-year career that brought him from the shop floor to the presidency of the United Automobile Workers.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst.</span></p>

<p>Uncle Max Ran the Union?</p>

<p><span class="deck">Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">HISTORY’S MOST PHOTOGENIC LABOR dispute lasted 30 days, spread to eight cities, closed 37 plays, and finally won performers some respect.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Poisoned, ruined, and self-cannibalized, this city is still the grandest of all boomtowns.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What should a union offer its members? A century-old fight heats up again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> FIFTY YEARS AGO,</lead_in> unions seemed invincible, but they’ve been losing battles and members ever since. The reasons why their fortunes fell suggest that they’re sure to rise again. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What history says about the new split in the AFl-CIO</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A never-before-seen report reveals just how fragile our great cities were, and remain.</span></p>

<p>FDR's Secretary of Labor — the first female Cabinet member — also helped create the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, and the first tough child labor laws.</p>