Nelson Lichtenstein
@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social
Historian, sometime journalist, retired actually
What shaped Mike Davis’s fierce critique of American capitalism? In a powerful tribute, Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social maps Davis’s journey from New Left Review to City of Quartz and beyond.
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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What shaped Mike Davis’s fierce critique of American capitalism? In a powerful tribute, Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social maps Davis’s journey from New Left Review to City of Quartz and beyond.
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
June 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What shaped Mike Davis’s fierce critique of American capitalism? In a powerful tribute, Nelson Lichtenstein @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social maps Davis’s journey from New Left Review to City of Quartz and beyond.
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
Read in LABOR: doi.org/10.1215/1547...
If you are interested in the fascinating and provocative career of Mike Davis you might find this retrospective on his work of interest. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
Mike Davis: The Road to City of Quartz and Beyond
Abstract. This essay explores the historiographic ideas and political experiences that influenced the work of Mike Davis, the prolific Marxist historian who died in 2022. His first two books, Prisoner...
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May 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you are interested in the fascinating and provocative career of Mike Davis you might find this retrospective on his work of interest. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
Leftists are now using the word "siblings" rather than "brothers and sisters" when addressing fellow unionists, activists, and movement people. I can see the gender logic, but siblings has little punch. How about "comrades?" That links speaker, writer, and audience in a common, fighting endeavor.
May 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Leftists are now using the word "siblings" rather than "brothers and sisters" when addressing fellow unionists, activists, and movement people. I can see the gender logic, but siblings has little punch. How about "comrades?" That links speaker, writer, and audience in a common, fighting endeavor.
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Why did corporatism take root in postwar Germany but not in the U.S.? In the first article of this special issue, @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social explores how both countries shared surprising similarities in the 1940s–50s—before diverging sharply in labor relations models. doi.org/10.1215/1547...
April 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Why did corporatism take root in postwar Germany but not in the U.S.? In the first article of this special issue, @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social explores how both countries shared surprising similarities in the 1940s–50s—before diverging sharply in labor relations models. doi.org/10.1215/1547...
Here's an article I just published in LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History. A bit relevant to contemporary labor and left discussions over "sectoral bargaining." read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
Why No Corporatism in the United States? American Versus German Models of Industrial Relations in the Early Postwar Era | Labor | Duke University Press
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April 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here's an article I just published in LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History. A bit relevant to contemporary labor and left discussions over "sectoral bargaining." read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
Samir Sonti and I have just edited a collection of essays on the labor movement derived from Dissent Magazine's 70 year archive. Here are some thoughts on how we can use that history today. thenewpress.com/blog/author-...
70 Years On: How We’ve Thought About the Unions | The New Press
By Nelson Lichtenstein, co-author of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today Labor’s Partisans is a retrospective on the evolution of the labor movement, as...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Samir Sonti and I have just edited a collection of essays on the labor movement derived from Dissent Magazine's 70 year archive. Here are some thoughts on how we can use that history today. thenewpress.com/blog/author-...
I am not one to find hopeful straws in the wind, but the Bernie/AOC set of rallies do seem to portend a tide of popular opposition to Trumpism. The Denver rally was his largest, ever. Notable has been his anti-oligarchy theme, which can be mobilized against a faction inside the Democratic Party.
March 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am not one to find hopeful straws in the wind, but the Bernie/AOC set of rallies do seem to portend a tide of popular opposition to Trumpism. The Denver rally was his largest, ever. Notable has been his anti-oligarchy theme, which can be mobilized against a faction inside the Democratic Party.
My take on the how and why of a new union movement, even in these times. jacobin.com/2025/02/unio...
Unionizing the “Cultural Apparatus”
Don’t mourn the professional-managerial class — organize it.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My take on the how and why of a new union movement, even in these times. jacobin.com/2025/02/unio...
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Trump is showing us who's on our side. Pretty much everyone.
“They have built our coalition for us by virtue of the wide range of attacks by race, class, gender, legal status and more."
From @lfelizleon.bsky.social @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
“They have built our coalition for us by virtue of the wide range of attacks by race, class, gender, legal status and more."
From @lfelizleon.bsky.social @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
It’s Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire Rule
The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.
inthesetimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Trump is showing us who's on our side. Pretty much everyone.
“They have built our coalition for us by virtue of the wide range of attacks by race, class, gender, legal status and more."
From @lfelizleon.bsky.social @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
“They have built our coalition for us by virtue of the wide range of attacks by race, class, gender, legal status and more."
From @lfelizleon.bsky.social @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
Can we reconstruct a socialist educational experience? History may offer some guidance jacobin.com/2025/02/soci...
The Left Needs Its “Schools of Enlightenment and Revolution”
Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and building of institutions of political education has been key.
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February 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Can we reconstruct a socialist educational experience? History may offer some guidance jacobin.com/2025/02/soci...
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“What’s past is prologue.” – Roger Stone
To understand 2025, go back to the #Nineties. Read my review of @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s “When the Clock Broke” and @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social and Judith Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure” to learn why. #USPolitics www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/back...
To understand 2025, go back to the #Nineties. Read my review of @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s “When the Clock Broke” and @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social and Judith Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure” to learn why. #USPolitics www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/back...
Back to the ‘90s | Henry Tonks
On Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” and Lichtenstein and Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure”
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February 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“What’s past is prologue.” – Roger Stone
To understand 2025, go back to the #Nineties. Read my review of @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s “When the Clock Broke” and @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social and Judith Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure” to learn why. #USPolitics www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/back...
To understand 2025, go back to the #Nineties. Read my review of @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s “When the Clock Broke” and @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social and Judith Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure” to learn why. #USPolitics www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/back...
Here is the latest Labor and Working-Class History Newsletter. It is a post-mortem on the November elections. Many good interventions, including one that I put together on why the Biden Industrial policy initiatives had so little political impact. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
February 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Here is the latest Labor and Working-Class History Newsletter. It is a post-mortem on the November elections. Many good interventions, including one that I put together on why the Biden Industrial policy initiatives had so little political impact. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
News reports say that tennis champion Novak Djokovic supports student protesters in his native Serbia. For years he has been or allowed himself to be identified with the nationalist and undemocratic ruling regime. Now I might cheer for him at the next match.
February 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
News reports say that tennis champion Novak Djokovic supports student protesters in his native Serbia. For years he has been or allowed himself to be identified with the nationalist and undemocratic ruling regime. Now I might cheer for him at the next match.
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the venerable @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social identified this anti competitive behavior in his study of Walmart so many years ago.. glad to see the FTC is finally taking action
1. Big news! The FTC took action today to end Walmart’s stranglehold on the grocery market. The agency filed suit against Pepsi for giving illegal and unfair price advantages to Walmart while charging competing grocery retailers higher prices.
Stacy Mitchell Statement on the FTC’s Action Against PepsiCo for Rigging Soft Drink Competition
"Much of Walmart’s market dominance can be attributed to its use of this illegal and anti-competitive tactic," says Stacy Mitchell
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January 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the venerable @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social identified this anti competitive behavior in his study of Walmart so many years ago.. glad to see the FTC is finally taking action
1977
Hint: it’s Harvey O’Connor
January 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
1977
1960?
January 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
1960?
Why was this post not filled 50 years ago? And should not all NR reporters be “class” reporters?
January 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Why was this post not filled 50 years ago? And should not all NR reporters be “class” reporters?
This is excellent! Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser portside.org/2024-12-20/e...
Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser
Democrats may be in the minority, but they are not yet an opposition. What’s the difference?
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December 21, 2024 at 5:33 AM
This is excellent! Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser portside.org/2024-12-20/e...
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Our Fragile Juggernaut episode on labor in World War II is here, with the legendary @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social. What happens when you get full employment, price controls, mass migration to cities, and the integration of labor into the total war mobilization? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
War
Podcast Episode · Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut · S1 E17 · 1h 57m
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December 17, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Our Fragile Juggernaut episode on labor in World War II is here, with the legendary @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social. What happens when you get full employment, price controls, mass migration to cities, and the integration of labor into the total war mobilization? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818
Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today by
Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection of articles from Dissent, ...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Our collection will not be officially out until February 2025 but Publisher's Weekly seems to like it: www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978818
Martin di Caro is an excellent interviewer and he rounds out the questions and comments with many fascinating sound bites from the people and events being discussed. Sort of an audio take on my history of Clinton's economic policy. historyasithappens.radio.washingtontimes.com/the-new-econ...
History As It Happens: The "New Economy"
Midway through his eighth year in office, President Bill Clinton kicked off a White House conference on the "new economy." The internet age was underway, unemployment was low, inflation was dormant, t...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Martin di Caro is an excellent interviewer and he rounds out the questions and comments with many fascinating sound bites from the people and events being discussed. Sort of an audio take on my history of Clinton's economic policy. historyasithappens.radio.washingtontimes.com/the-new-econ...
Escape Artists was indeed useful in writing my economic history of the Clinton Administration and its legacy
Important indeed as it comes back to Biden, Harris defeat. Supporting @noamscheiber.bsky.social case against Obama's reliance on Clinton advisers is @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on Clinton, the "Fabulous Failure." btw, purchase his book here, not Amazon: www.simonandschuster.biz/books/The-Es...
December 6, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Escape Artists was indeed useful in writing my economic history of the Clinton Administration and its legacy
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My interview with
@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on Bill Clinton’s economic legacy is edited and ready to go!
How much credit does Clinton deserve for the 90’s economy, and how do decisions on free trade, deregulation, and welfare reform hold up today?
Publication date is 12.16
@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on Bill Clinton’s economic legacy is edited and ready to go!
How much credit does Clinton deserve for the 90’s economy, and how do decisions on free trade, deregulation, and welfare reform hold up today?
Publication date is 12.16
December 6, 2024 at 5:18 AM
My interview with
@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on Bill Clinton’s economic legacy is edited and ready to go!
How much credit does Clinton deserve for the 90’s economy, and how do decisions on free trade, deregulation, and welfare reform hold up today?
Publication date is 12.16
@nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social on Bill Clinton’s economic legacy is edited and ready to go!
How much credit does Clinton deserve for the 90’s economy, and how do decisions on free trade, deregulation, and welfare reform hold up today?
Publication date is 12.16