An article (published May 23) summarizing and contextualizing recent attacks on labor faculty, and the Koch Brothers’ funding at FSU and elsewhere:
http://subterraneandispatches.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/attacking-memory-of-workers-struggle/
Category Archives: Attack on Labor Studies
University of Missouri Labor Faculty Targeted
A prominent conservative blogger posts edited footage of online labor studies lectures at University of Missouri. Faculty job threatened.
Story in Chronicle of Higher Education, April 28, 2011
An update (May 17), via Democracy Now
Useful commentary, including analysis of the unedited and edited videos, at Crooks and Liars.
New Yorker: The Cronon Affair: Wisconsin Answers
The Cronon Affair: Wisconsin Answers (New Yorker: April 3, 2011)
Conservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs’ Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle … And Maddow
A post from Talking Points Memo \ concerning labor studies faculty targeted in Wisconsin.