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Brendan Seibel
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Jun 20, 2018
How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops
Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive
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Meagan Day
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Jun 1, 2018
The extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working women
She’d been told that men are the breadwinners, so “women just don’t need this type of job”
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Shoshi Parks
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May 30, 2018
The not-so-sweet story of how Filipino workers tried to take on Big Sugar in Hawaii
How can you win when the media, the public, and big business are against you?
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Meagan Day
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Mar 8, 2018
How poor, mostly Jewish immigrants organized 20,000 and fought for workers’ rights
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Meagan Day
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Feb 8, 2018
Andrew Carnegie once hired a militia and converted factories into makeshift forts to battle striking workers
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Jan 11, 2018
The hippest, happiest bus drivers Southern California ever did know
These 1980s Employee-of-the-Month…
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Stephanie Buck
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Nov 14, 2017
Here’s how a bunch of macho oil workers brought about legal protections from same-sex harassment
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Stephanie Buck
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Sep 12, 2017
Americans used to get a booze break at 11 a.m., but the Industrial Revolution killed that. Sad.
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Matt Reimann
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Aug 1, 2017
This tragic mill collapse killed mostly women, after industrialists put profit before safety
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Matt Reimann
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Jun 27, 2017
Personality tests are old-fashioned and bizarre, but employers still love them
Even in today’s world…
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