Action alerts for labor history

Labor News of the Day

LabourStart: where trade unionists start their day on the net

Telling Labor's Story: LAWCHA page on current issues

Resources for Union Organizing Employee Free Choice Act

Center for Labor Renewal

Economic Policy Institute American Rights at Work

Working Class Studies Blog Contemporary Labor Bibliography (Kim Scipes' Bibliography- terrific links)

• LaborNet

Inequality of Wealth

Working Group on Extreme Inequality

graphs, explanations, good source

Executive PayWatch (AFL-CIO)

The Silent Depression: The State of the Dream 2009 (United for a Fair Economy)

Labor Project for Working Families

Gender Pay Gap by Occupation

Economic Policy Institute American Rights at Work

Income Inequality chart

• Boom for Whom?  Inequality dogged the “new economy”

• Wealth Distribution
  
  
• Household Debt
  
  
• Race and Money—statistics of income and jobs
  
  
• United for a Fair Economy- lots of statistics
  
  
• Paul Street on Prisons powerful article about the role of prisons in respect to labor surplus
  
  
• Economic Mobility Project Report

Walmart

WalMart Watch

Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price (film)

Repression of Rights/Labor Law

• UNFAIR ADVANTAGE  Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards by Human Rights Watch, 2000
• Union Busting Watch page
• Kate Bronfenbrenner No Holds Barred The Intensification of
  Employer Opposition to OrganizingIndentured Servants(pdf)
• Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights

Special Response Corporation, ad for 1991 New York Newspaper Strike

Shorter hours

• References for shorters hours and American Labor history
• 32 hours—action for full employment Canadian site, with numerous links to European and Canadian websites associated with quest for shorter hours
• The Labor Project for Working Families - advocacy and policy organization providing technical assistance, resources, and education to unions and union members on family issues in the workplace including: Childcare, Elder care, Family leave, Work hours, Quality of life.
• Shorter Work Time Group U.S. based group