by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 17, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director Listen to the audio version >> The COVID-19 era has confronted workers with unique threats and problems – and they have turned to unique strategies to counter them. The previous commentary, “Striking in the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Sep 2, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director In response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression, workers have developed unique strategies and forms of organization to protect their lives and livelihoods. We saw in “Fighting the Great Depression — from...
by Jeremy Brecher | Aug 11, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director In the early years of the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployed and impoverished workers turned to dramatic forms of self-help to survive. Anti-eviction “riots” led by organizations of the unemployed made it...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jul 30, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director The preceding commentary, “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below,” described the grassroots action by employed and unemployed workers in the early years of the Great Depression. This commentary and the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jul 15, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director At the pit of the Great Depression in 1930, an American country music group called the Carter Family recorded a song called The Worried Man Blues. It began: I went down to the river and I lay down to sleep When I...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jun 26, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director The previous commentary, “Black Lives in the Green New Deal,” described how the uprising in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is developing toward a movement addressing the...
