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Shaun Richman

@ess_dog

Labor guy in higher ed. Contributor: @inthesetimesmag, @theprospect. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (@monthly_review). Slightly acerbic.

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Jacobin (@jacobin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With a number of cases now working their way through US courts, the Right is hoping the Supreme Court will scrap central elements of labor law. Unions need to prepare for this outcome, which would create a very different strategic terrain for labor. jacobin.com/2024/10/nlra-s…

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.Shaun Richman: "Assuming that the Supreme Court sticks to its cowardly practice of dumping its most unpopular decisions in the last week of the term in which it hears arguments, we have twenty months until the NLRB is shut down." jacobin.com/2024/10/nlra-s… #UnitedStates

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Shaun Richman (Shaun Richman) is the author of the forthcoming book WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 go.illinois.edu/s25richman

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Wow! I never thought I'd be asked to write about The Nanny, crossing picket lines, and the tradition of strong Jewish union women, so I'm indebted to Shaun Richman for making it happen. If you like TV and labor culture, look for solongdentalplan.com in 2026!

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I'm in today's New York Daily News arguing that the City Council should borrow a tactic from higher ed and pass a "vote of no confidence" in Mayor Eric Adams. nydailynews.com/2025/02/18/giv…

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Check out this piece in the New York Daily News from Shaun Richman, author of WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088… Give Mayor Adams a no confidence vote nydailynews.com/2025/02/18/giv…

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Happy Pub Date to WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 by Shaun Richman (In These Times; The American Prospect)! press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088… #AmericanHistory #LaborStudies #ReadUP #AmReading #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress

Happy Pub Date to WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 by <a href="/Ess_Dog/">Shaun Richman</a> (<a href="/inthesetimesmag/">In These Times</a>; <a href="/theprospect/">The American Prospect</a>)!
press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088…

#AmericanHistory #LaborStudies #ReadUP #AmReading #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
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ALL OF THIS You really can't explain the rise of the CIO, and the subsequent union member surge in both the CIO and AFL without this This point is eluded to in Shaun Richman wonderful new book “We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953”

ALL OF THIS 

You really can't explain the rise of the CIO, and the subsequent union member surge in both the CIO and AFL without this 

This point is eluded to in 
<a href="/Ess_Dog/">Shaun Richman</a> wonderful new book “We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953”
America's Work Force (@awfunionpodcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shaun Richman (@Ess_dog), labor historian, professor and author, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his new book "We Always Had a Union: The Story of the New York Hotel Workers Union, 1912-1953." Illinois Press awf.labortools.com/listen/shaun-r…

Give Them An Argument With Ben Burgis (@gtaa_show) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On tonight's show Ben Burgis interviews Shaun Richman about his book "We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953." Before that Ben debunks the latest anti-Zohran smears. More JBP madness in the postgame for patrons. All starts at 8 ET! youtube.com/watch?v=O2l_oi…

Jacobin (@jacobin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and lose influence within the labor movement. jacobin.com/2025/07/hotel-…

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I have a new piece in @Jacobin about the merger and messy divorce between the Hotel Employees union and the Communist Party. From my new book. jacobin.com/2025/07/hotel-…

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Shaun Richman's WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: New York’s Hotel Workers Union, 1912–1953 was featured in Jacobin. jacobin.com/2025/07/hotel-… cc: Shaun Richman