Richard Greenwald is a labor historian and social critic. . His essays have appeared in In These Times, The Progressive, The Wall Street Journal among others. He is currently writing a book on the rise of freelancing and is co-editing a book on the future of work for The New Press, which features essays from the county’s leading labor scholars and public intellectuals.
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.
Culture
No Self-Help Wanted
You are not the only thing holding you back.
Culture
Digging the Underground Press
The Sixties' scrappy alternative newspapers were the oxygen that kept the era's movements going.
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Triangle Fire: Remembrance of Things Past—and Present
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What We Haven’t Learned From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Rethinking ‘the Last Days of the Working Class’
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Why Are Sweatshops So Invisible? One Answer: The Media
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Might New Union Leaders Speak—and Act— for All Workers?
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What’s Missing From the Movement? Leaders!
Viewpoint
A Modest Proposal for Teacher Tenure Reform
Lifetime employment should be earned.
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Rushing for the Exits: Public Employees Take Retirement Over Retrenchment
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Collaboration Power: How Are Unions and Educators Joining Forces?
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Losing Another Working-Class Hero: Graphic Novelist Harvey Pekar Dies at 70
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Remembering Charles Ensley, Union Reformer for an Uncertain Age
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N.Y. State Tries to Help Frustrated Freelancers Get Paid
Culture
Working on a (Temp) Dream
Welcome to the freelance economy, where workers are atomized, badly compensated and strangely optimistic.
Labor
Where Are Our Organic Labor Intellectuals? Maybe Right Here!
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The ‘Blame the Teacher’ Movement, and the Public-Sector Union Crisis
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When Did Teachers Become the Enemy?
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Could Proposed N.Y. Triangle Fire Bill Lead to Better Workplace Safety?
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Remembering the Triangle Fire
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The Death—and Life?—of Craftsmanship
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Can Freelancers Unite? New Union Aims to Organize Contract Workers
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Toyota Wages PR Battle With Workers
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Another Hospital Closure in NYC?
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What We Miss: Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
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Will Tuition Devolution for NY State Schools Hurt the Working Class?
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The Mall as Poverty Wage Center
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Our Coffee, Ourselves
The rise of Starbucks reveals how we really live, and it ain't pretty.
Labor
How We Are Part of the Sweatshop Economy
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Unions Must Attract the Young and Hip—or Become Obsolete
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20 Years After the Wall’s Fall, What Happened to International Solidarity?
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Lessons for Labor—and Progressives—from 1909
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What the Liu Sweatshop Controversy Could Have Taught Us
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Day Laborers as a Leading Economic Indicator
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Freelancers: the New Working Class?