Member Profile
Steve Early
Steve Early is a labor journalist and lawyer who has written for numerous publications. He is the author of Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home and The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor. Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years, and is a member of the editorial advisory committees of three independent labor publications: Labor Notes, New Labor Forum and Working USA. He can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Alone or with co-authors, Early has contributed chapters to seven edited collections. He is currently working on a book for Cornell University Press on the role of Sixties’ movement activists in American labor during the last four decades.
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100 Years After Lawrence Strike, the Cry for ‘Bread & Roses’ Still Resonates
LAWRENCE, MASS.--One hundred years ago this month, thousands of angry textile workers abandoned their looms and poured more »
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End of the Newt & Andy Show? Breaking Up Is So Hard…
[A]fter an hour with Gingrich, I was more than pleasantly surprised by his thoughtfulness and candor… more »
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A ‘Stewards Army’ Uprising Brings Regime Change to CWA Local 1101
'Rebuild' slate takes over in NYC, after years of corrupt mismanagement My first contact with union reformers in more »
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Goodbye to the ‘Middle Class’? A Lesson for Labor From Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap. more »
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Whither Change to Win?
The much-heralded breakaway labor federation now calls itself a "strategic organizing center" Most six-year-olds like to have a more »
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Verizon Showdown Calls for New Strike Tactics
The culture of “no contract, no work” is almost extinct in the United States, where strike more »
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Kaiser Election Results KOed: Judge Orders Rematch Between SEIU and NUHW
When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) defeated the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in balloting among 43,000 more »
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Insurgent Sandy Pope Nominated for Teamster Presidency
At the Teamster convention, rank-and-file delegates explain who's behind the TDU-backed candidate LAS VEGAS--Behind every good man, one more »
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Viva Las Vegas? Teamsters Gather in Sin City for Old-School Convention
If resolutions could defeat management’s 'war on workers,' the IBT could declare victory now! LAS more »
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Sisters In The Union Brotherhood: Still Struggling For Recognition
Women in top union leadership positions generally don’t get much publicity—in part because there more »
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