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Five Ideas for Digital Labor History
This article originally appeared on January 9, 2014 in LaborOnline. Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives. When I...
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The more things change…
As a parent of two Chicago Public Schools 4th graders, I’ve had a crash course this year in urban austerity. Teachers are trying their best, but with 31 students per class, the school library...
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The Networked Labor Movement
This is the first in a series of posts I expect to write to help me think through the use of network analysis and visualization. When I started converting the printed American Labor Who’s Who to an...
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Networked Labor Movement–one step backward
This is the second in a series of posts I expect to write to help me think through the use of network analysis and visualization. Read the first post, and a backgrounder. A network chart based on the...
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Networked Labor Movement: Edges and Mediators
This is the third in a series of posts I am writing to help me think through the use of network analysis and visualization. A more attractive, but somewhat less informational, version of the chart...
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Networked Labor Movement: I reach an impasse, and go around
This is the fourth a series of posts I am writing to help me think through the use of network analysis and visualization. A simplified network chart based on the complete ALWW directory. The chart...
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Situations and Relations
Back in February, I gave a talk to the UCLA Digital Labor Working Group about my network analysis with the Labor Who’s Who data. You can see my slides here: Click to view slideshow. I opened with the...
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Memories of the College of Complexes
Back in 2008 I posted a number of documents from my Chicago free speech exhibit, one of them an interview of Slim Brundage by Studs Terkel. Now a reader from Italy writes in the comment section with...
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Mapping the Labor Press
I recently discovered the 1925 American Labor Press Directory, compiled by the same crew that put together the Labor Who’s Who. Luckily, the press directory (ALPD) is much easier to convert to data....
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Labor’s Many Robots
As I work through my book manuscript, I am coming across a rich crop of new robot images to supplement my earlier article Why Do Robots Rebel? As it happens, the journal Labor Age was a frequent...
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