Tin Workers News Today

By Janine Giordano Drake American Christians are big on Christmas pageants that resemble Cinderella Stories.  We like to reenact the story of an angel

United Steelworkers (USW), American labour union representing workers in metallurgical industries as well as in healthcare and other service industries. The union grew out of an agreement reached in 1936 between the newly formed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO; later the Congress of

Katherine Stone analyses how workers' control in the US steel industry in the 19th century was broken up by the employers using Taylorist management techniques, leading to the job structure which remains in place today.

Strikes have been a major, sometimes perilous tactic for workers as theyve fought for better wages and working conditions.

A history by Gabriella M. Bonacchi of council communist efforts in the US in the 1930s.

Katherine Stone analyses how workers' control in the US steel industry in the 19th century was broken up by the employers using Taylorist management techniques, leading to the job structure which remains in place today.

Transcript of a talk given by 5 people who were involved in CIO organizing in the 1930s.

A piece about William Z. Foster and the myth that had arisen around the "boring from within" strategy.

Young James began his working life as a puddler in the local ironworks - an arduous job at the basic level turning pig iron into wrought iron. A mis-spelling of his name by an immigration official had recorded the name as Davis and this was to be the family name thereafter. While James and his mother with brothers and sisters waited on the quayside before catching a train to his father, an incident gave a definitive form to the way his life would develop. Recording this in the Monmouth...