UnLivable Cultures

State of the Unionizing: Labor Movements and Corporate Counter-Movements


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The recent waves of unionizing in the US ranging from Amazon to Starbucks have garnered national attention. Not to mention the eye roll that is Elon Musk and his notorious Twitter takeover. Clayton, Julia, and Cody talk about the history of labor movements in the US, the union-busting tactics of corporations, and how the current workforce scene translates into everyday life.

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From the 1830s until 2012 (but mostly the 1930s-1980s)

G. William Domhoff


Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter

By Kate CongerMike IsaacRyan Mac and Tiffany Hsu



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Mick Lynch: The UK’s Proposed Anti-Union Laws Are “a Suppression of Our Human Rights”


The US Labor Movement Notched Some Impressive Victories in 2022

Jenny Brown



The Great Resignation: the great knowledge exodus or the onset of the Great Knowledge Revolution? Alexander Serenko

A Twitter manager says laid-off engineers he's rehired are 'weak, lazy, unmotivated'

Sam Tabahriti


The American public is back in love with labor unions, so why aren’t workers?

Eric Rosenbaum


Inside the Wild Starbucks Manager Kidnapping Incident That Wasn’t

Paul Blest


Ex-Starbucks Manager Says He Was Given a List of Pro-Union Workers to Target

Paul Blest


Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blames Dem-run cities for store closures

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Vicky Diaz-Camacho


Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

Natalia Molina





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