Kelly: History of labor movement has been 'buried'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Labor author Kim Kelly said the history of labor workers has purposely been diminished over time.

Kelly is the author of “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor,” which examines the stories of factory workers, farm laborers, and domestic workers behind some of the most successful labor movements in United States history.

“Academics, historians, archivists, they’ve been digging up and preserving these stories for way longer than I’ve been alive, but It’s not always that accessible to just regular rank and file workers with no connection to academia who don’t necessarily know where to look to be able to find these stories,” Kelly said while appearing on Hill.TV’s “Rising.”

Kelly said that the history of the labor movement has been intentionally hidden by the “powers that be.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kelly-history-of-labor-movement-has-been-buried/ar-AAWOdkj

[Ocelot II]

3. The problem is that the more "serious" a book is, the fewer people will buy it,

which increases the cost per single book. That's why college textbooks are so expensive. So unless an author of a scholarly, thoroughly-researched book that might take years to write is willing to effectively donate their work, these books will necessarily cost more than the usual commercial fiction, massed-produced potboiler. This is why there are libraries, where people can read books for free.

[murielm99]

2. We have a high school social studies teacher

in my community who teaches an entire unit on labor history. He registers kids to vote. He teaches them geography as well. Many of them who are seniors in high school can't label a map and put all the states in their proper places. He quizzes them until they get it right.

I hate to think what will happen when he retires, which will be soon.