Workers in Catalonia have launched a general strike today in response to the brutal police repression following Sunday's Catalan independence referendum.
A short account of the Lower East Side rent strike in New York City in late 1907 to early 1908.
The report of a Rico auto worker of a strike in 2009, alongside another similar struggle and general questions about workers' organisation in India.
Maurice Brinton's analysis of the bizarre mass suicide of a socialist cult led by American Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, which discusses the dynamics of political sects in general.
The issue of labor discipline lay at the very heart of the antagonistic relationship between the Soviet elite and its work force. Soviet industry was plagued with high labor turnover, absenteeism...
A repost from another blog I run, with a personal update and an idea for a project about the Dubuque Packing Company, a large meat processing plant that once employed 3,500 people, until its...
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