Steve Early

Review of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, by Joe Uehlein. Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a foreword by Si Kahn, is pretty solid evidence that the author has music world friends of<br> Read More »

The Rise of a Socialist Mayor Forty-five years ago, a socialist, who previously couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Vermont, walked into his state’s largest city hall and claimed the office of mayor by a landslide margin of ten votes.<br> Read More »

Review of Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard., by Ellen David Friedman. (PM Press, 2026.) Six years ago, Labor Notes ran a contribution to its popular “Steward’s Corner” column by Ellen David-Friedman, a long-time labor educator and<br> Read More »

During World War II, the shipyard workforce in Richmond numbered one hundred thousand—and 20 percent was non-white.  By 1945, Richmond had the largest public housing program in the nation, with seventy-three thousand residents. Eighty percent of Richmond’s black residents lived<br> Read More »

As a union rep who worked in northern New England and upstate New York for more than three decades, I became very familiar with down and out working class “spaces.” De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t<br> Read More »