Although it is exoticised in popular perception, Chinatown in Manhattan has indeed been a site of long-drawn labour movements and mass struggles by Chinese immigrants.
At 107, the remarkable Dorothy Burnham holds court as the queen of the Oak Bluffs Campground. She was born March 22, 1915. She has only one complaint: “My memory is a problem.” Her birthplace was in Brooklyn, N.Y., where her parents were first-generation Bahamian immigrants. After majoring in biology at Brooklyn College, she and her […]
A former labor reporter for the New York Times, Steven Greehouse is surprisingly optimistic: “When the first Starbucks voted to unionize in Buffalo back in December that was a humongous deal.” Humongous! Plus a look back at Clara Lemlich and the garment workers strike of 1909. Tea people, coffee people, and trade unions. Good news in tough times.
Feminist writer and organizer Meredith Tax on her reissued classic The Rising of the Women , and the long, entangled histories of women’s movements and…