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In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, which officially took place betw…

In the commonly told story of the sit-down strike at the Flint General Motors auto plant, women are an interesting footnote. It may be mentioned that there was a women’s militia who helped with the strike effort, but there were also countless other women touched by this moment i…

After the mid-twentieth century, the American labor movement began to decline. Across the U.S., Union memberships and the rate of work stoppages decreased. In the hospitality-industry-driven city of Las Vegas, Nevada, however, the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 more than doubl…