by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/workers-vs-the-coronavirus-depression/, 17 September 2020 The COVID-19 era has confronted workers with unique threats and problems – and they have turned to unique strategies to counter them. The previous commentary, “Striking in the Coronavirus Depression,” described how workers in hundreds of workplaces conducted strikes and other forms of… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/self-help-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 11 August 2020   Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields of California. Date: 1935. Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Wikimedia Commons.   In the early years of the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployed and impoverished workers turned… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/striking-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 02 September 2020 In response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression, workers have developed unique strategies and forms of organization to protect their lives and livelihoods. We saw in “Fighting the Great Depression — from Below” how in the early years of the Great… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-unemployed-vs-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 30 July 2020 The preceding commentary, “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below,” described the grassroots action by employed and unemployed workers in the early years of the Great Depression. This commentary and the subsequent ones tell how, in the face of the… Read More »