A History of America in Ten Strikes

When a strike like the CTU action takes place, it forces people who claim to support the working class to announce which side they are on

Americans’ shared memory—shaped by teachers, textbook writers, the media, public monuments, and the stories about the past we tell in our own families, churches, and workplaces—too often erases or downplays critical stories of workplace struggle

Labor Day was created as a conservative holiday so that American workers would not celebrate the radical international workers’ holiday May Day

workplace is a site where people struggle for power