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• Working-Class Environmentalism in America

  "Postwar America saw the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers (USWA), Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW), American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and other labor unions lobbying for wilderness and wildlife preservation, workplace and community health, and fighting air and water pollution, while the United Farmworkers (UFW) fought reckless pesticide use, and dissidents within the United Mine Workers (UMW) sought to ban surface coal mining." – By Scott Dewey

• Arab Labor Migration in the Americas, 1880–1930

  “Between 1880 and 1914, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another in the late 19th century, Arab labor migrants plugged themselves into the urban economies of the settler societies they inhabited...” – By Stacy D. Fahrenthold

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