April 6, 2013 By Kathryn Boughton (CTBulletin.com) As unemployment and hard times lead many to believe the issue is “protecting jobs vs. protecting the environment,” labor, religious, environmental, and community leaders in Connecticut decided to join together proactively to fight for job-creating climate protection progress while seeking win-win solutions for their disagreements. Their… Read More »
BANDED TOGETHER
May 1, 2011 ONE COMMUNITY’S RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Click here to download a free pdf copy of Banded Together. Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community’s efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of… Read More »
NEW TACTICS FOR LABOR – PART II
November 14, 2008 In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor movement in white ethnic urban industrial communities was eroded by suburbanization… Read More »
CORNWALL IN PICTURES
January 5, 2001 A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941 The Cornwall Historical Society announces publication of Cornwall in Pictures—A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941, with text by Jeremy Brecher, life-long Cornwall resident and Connecticut historian. Published by the Cornwall Historical Society, the book, with a hard-cover cloth binding and 224 pages, contains more than 400 images, mostly photographs… Read More »