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Aaron Goings, Brian Barnes, and Roger Snider Oregon State University Press, 2019.     The historian Paul Buhle notes in a recent essay that deepening social crises with strains of social and economic class running through them may be stirring new interests in American labor history. The Red Coast provides evidence that he might be on to something. The authors’ interest in the struggle of workers to form unions at the turn of the twentieth century—and the resistance of employers to those ...

As the trade war with china intensifi intensifies, the effects of soaring tariffs are making u.s. industries suffer more. cnn talked to lumber workers in upstate, no. this is a problem for the lumber industry. >> reporter: thats right, john. the lumber industry has been cut by nearly 40% in just the last year because of tariffs. thats causing saw mills across the country to make very difficult choices. we are here in new york at bailey lumber where they are bracing for new increased tariffs to g...