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Articles by Michael Goldfield
Why Did the UAW Lose in Alabama?
There is quite a bit of exciting labor activity going on throughout the United States. According to several metrics, the present period seems so far to be one of labor ascendancy. Union elections administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have been on the rise over the past few years, surging up from their pandemic lows by 53 percent between 2021 and 2022, and ticking up again modestly by another 3 percent between 2022 and 2023.
Longshore Labour and Radicalism
Copyright © 2024 by the Canadian Committee on Labour History. All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means — graphic, electronic, or mechanical—without the prior written permission of the publisher. Tous droits réservés, © « le Comité canadien sur l’histoire du travail », 2024.
The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
John Logan John Logan is Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center. Between 2000-2009, he was an assistant and associate professor of comparative employment relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published widely on employer opposition to unionization and on anti-union law and consultant firms.
Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
The union drive in the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama was defeated, yet the fight goes on, both in the long term and in the short term, and the union organizers are currently contesting the results. It is important for the Left and the labor movement to analyze these results in order to understand why the drive was unsuccessful and how similar outcomes can be avoided in the future.
The Alabama Amazon Union Drive Could Be the Most Important Labor Fight in the South in Decades
Interview by Alex N. Press Nearly six thousand Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are currently voting on whether to unionize. The mail-in ballot process began on February 8, and ballots must be returned by March 29. The votes will be tallied the following day. It’s one of the most important union campaigns in the United States.
Interview: If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective. Goldfield argues that the old question “Why no socialism in the U.S.?” reduces to “Why no liberalism in the South?” which itself is answered, in large part, by unions’ failure to organize the region in the early and middle twentieth century.
If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
Labour, USA • November 30, 2020 • Chris Wright and Michael Goldfield At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides some perspective.
American Exceptionalism or the Trump Aberration? Race and Class in American Politics
As the liberal anti-establishment iconoclast Gore Vidal once quipped, “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings.” W. E. B.
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda on Her New Book, Migrant Citizenship
Jacob Remes Jacob is a clinical associate professor of history in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He is the author of Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (University of Illinois Press, 2016). View all posts by Jacob Remes » Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues with Verónica Martínez-Matsuda.
One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression
Today’s soaring unemployment, small business failures, and uncertainty about the future are like nothing most of us have seen in our lifetimes. If there’s any useful historical parallel, it might be the Great Depression. Like the coronavirus-driven economic crash, the Depression devastated a nation where things were already awful for a lot of people. In the 1920s, business owners pretty much did whatever they wanted. The rich got obscenely richer.
100 Years of American Communism
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA (CP). The party became, from at least the early 1930s until the 1950s, the preeminent left group in the country, and one with no significant rivals. It was during this period that Communists led the fight for racial equality, and were the most important organizers of rapidly expanding industrial unions.
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