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Richard Greenwald is dean and professor of history at Drew University’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. A former features writer for the Associated Press, he is currently editing a forthcoming collection titled Labor’s Day, which features essays from the county’s leading labor scholars and public intellectuals.

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Greenwald is the author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York (2005), co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (2003), and is currently writing a book about C. Wright Mills and labor. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal Working USA.

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- 16 Nov 09
Unions Must Attract the Young and Hip—or Become Obsolete

By Richard Greenwald Our mental images of labor seem so out of date. More to the point, they… more
- Working
- 11 Nov 09
20 Years After the Wall’s Fall, What Happened to International Solidarity?

by Richard Greenwald This week seems all about celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,… more
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- 14 Oct 09
Lessons for Labor—and Progressives—from 1909

By Richard Greenwald A hundred years ago this fall, a group of young, immigrant and mostly female workers… more
- Working
- 01 Oct 09
What the Liu Sweatshop Controversy Could Have Taught Us

By Richard Greenwald In a bitter New York City Democratic Primary for City Comptroller that finished Tuesday with… more
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- 03 Sep 09
Day Laborers as a Leading Economic Indicator

Journalists and economic commentators have been deeply concerned with predicting when the recession will end. Cable TV has… more
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- 19 Aug 09
Freelancers: the New Working Class?

Those who graduated college last May have had to make some economic adjustments. The recession changed their job… more