Jeremy Brecher

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History from Below: The Brass Valley

Since 1989 I have been studying the history of working people in the Naugatuck Valley of western Connecticut. This work started with the Brass Workers History Project which produced the participatory community history Brass Valley: The Story of Working People’s Lives and Struggles in an American Industrial Region and the documentary movie Brass Valley and led to a series of other participatory history projects in the Naugatuck Valley and elsewhere. My “history from below” work seeks to embody what historical theorist Michael Frisch has called “shared authority” between history professionals and the communities they study and address.[1]

[1] Michael Frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).

ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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Common Preservation

  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • Commentary: The Green New Deal in the States – Part 2
  • Commentary: The Green New Deal in the States – Part 1
  • If the Courts Won’t Protect the Climate the People Must
  • The Inflation Reduction Act and the Labor-Climate Movement
  • Transforming Transportation–from Below
  • Unions Making a Green New Deal From Below–Part 2
  • Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below–Part 1

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