Samuel Gompers, the storied leader of the American Federation of Labor, worried about “globalization” almost 100 years ago. Concerned about how “free trade” created “slave labor” conditions in the colonial world, he helped create the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1919 in order to establish world labor standards. The ILO was conceived by “responsible labor […]
James Green
James Green is a labor educator at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements.
