ROBERT LA-FOLLETTE’S SENATE REPORT ON CIVIL-LIBERTIES VIOLATIONS OF LABOR RIGHTS AS A RETROSPECTIVE INTERJECTION OF 21ST CENTURY PRACTICE INTRODUCTION How do things really work on our planet now? One way of answering such a query is to respond that they…
Author: nwuatlarge
Harking Back to Tinker
How Ought A Union Of Writers Respond To Evisceration Of Student Speech? Introduction Whatever one’s sense of the historical meaning of the initiation of the United States of America, the Bill of Rights, even without the addition of FDR’s ‘Economic…
On Student Loans
Traps & Scams & Rackets Aside, Understanding Student Loans Lies Near the Center of Comprehending the Current Pass A BRIEF AND A LITERATURE REVIEW Introduction Perhaps the easiest way to provide the background that This Humble Correspondent envisions as critical…
Legacies of Social Equality & Social Democracy:
STUDYING 19TH CENTURY POPULAR LITERATURE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND OVERVIEW The two most popular novels of the nineteenth century, two of the only volumes to sell more than a million copies at home before century’s end—and many millions more copies abroad—were,…
Happy Union Grammar Nerd – Number One
INTRODUCTORY CONTEXT If we were insisting on honesty, we’d have to face a key fact about English usage rules, or the notion of ‘Correct Usage’ in general. Most people could give less than ‘a tinker’s damn,’ as it were, about…
Tearing Down the Walls
Global Trade & Local Oppression from the Coal Creek Wars to the ‘Debacle in Chattanooga’ With just a modicum of support, a much longer and more thorough examination of this vicious, bloody piece from Dixie’s past would be possible. That…
International Labor Groups & Publications
http://www.clc-ctc.ca/ Canadian Labor Congress has much to proffer labor learning and organizing South of the border. http://www.fairlabor.org/labor-standards Fair Labor Association fights for and seeks to insure proper definition and promulgation of decent standards in the world’s workplaces. http://www.uniglobalunion.org/about-us Global Union…
Like Trees Standing by the Water…
Many folks with whom I’ve spoken over the past few days, in the parlance of the hills around here, have “been mad enough to eat iron and spit nails.” The loss of a shot at Union representation in Chattanooga—just over…
Writers Without Issues Have Nothing to Say
AN INTRODUCTORY POSTING Before beginning today’s blog proper, the first of a twice-monthly post entitled “A Writer Without Issues Has Nothing to Say,” I wanted to introduce myself and say a few words about process and approach. My name is…
Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time
AN INTRODUCTORY POSTING Before beginning today’s blog proper, the first of a twice-monthly post entitled “Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time,” I wanted to introduce myself and say a few words about process and approach. My name…
