Southern Tenant Farmers Union Museum

Labor Organizing

Tyronza, Arkansas Working closely with Sam Mitchell of Ottawa, Ontario since the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, we have been stewarding the H.L. Mitchell Scholarship Fund in honor of his father, one of the founders and the long time chief organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU), who I tracked down and got …

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Labor Studies Under Video Attack

Labor Organizing

New Orleans University based, state funded labor studies programs, frequently forced to balance curricula, research, and training between management and union perspectives, would not necessarily come up on the top 10 institutional supports for progressive movements or even the top 100, but it would be somewhere on the list, all of which means that these …

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