May is labor history month
To commemorate labor history month, take a tour of Labor Arts, a virtual museum that gathers, identifies, and displays historic images of working people and their organizations. The site states that...
View ArticleLost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980
For more than 20 years, visual artist Raymon Elozua has been assembling a vast collection of company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures that document America’s industrial history. This site...
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Celebrating American workers
The website for National Archives is a national treasure. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains important historical materials...
View ArticleCavalcade of Risk, dereriorating market, breast cancer, labor unions, and more
Cavalcade of Risk #87 is brought to you from the land down under – Andrew of Australia’s OzRisk is this week’s host – check it out! Deterioration in Work Comp market – In his blog Comp Time, Roberto...
View ArticleCavalcade of Risk and an assortment of workers’ comp news briefs
It’s Cavalcade of Risk day – visit the bi-weekly roundup of posts about risk, graciously hosted this week at Wenchy’s Place – check out this week’s edition and wish the hostess a happy birthday while...
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Mother Jones: from County Cork to the Coal Mines
“I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell-raiser” Top of the morning to you this St. Patrick’s Day! We thought that the day might be a fitting time to commemorate the life of an Irish immigrant who was...
View ArticleCavalcade of Risk & workers comp news briefs
It’s Cavalcade of Risk week and issue #122 is hosted by our friend David Williams at Health Business Blog – check it out! Industry pulse – Good news. Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information...
View ArticleAre events in Wisconsin part of a union busting initiative?
Later this month, we will mark the 100 year anniversary of New York’s horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, an event that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers – young girls and women – who had been...
View ArticleFriday sing-along: Songs for the Working Man & Woman
For Labor Day Weekend, Peter Rotheberg took “a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people.” He compiled a noteworthy list of the Top Ten Labor Day Songs – a...
View ArticleLabor Day Roundup: Here’s to the Workers
As a belated tribute to Labor Day, we offer a smorgasbord of items about work, worker safety, and some of our favorite tributes to workers. Celebrating the American Worker America at Work – Alan Taylor...
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