Hey all,
Mike recently linked to a Kentucky labor blog. It occur to me that there may be many, many small labor-related blogs out there worth reading. Can you post your favs in the comments section and, assuming this goes well, I'll put 'em up as a section in my links.
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Dave, there is a great list here. Also, I found this on the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas site with some of the "usual suspects" blogs.
Apparently, Talking Points Memo used to have a labor corner called "House of Labor" which is now defunct, but its archive is here. Maybe we can create something similar to "House of Labor"?
There aren't as many as you might think. A lot of the blogs on union label list are either defunct (notice that I've got a defunct blog something like the 13th on the list?) or aren't very labory.
For a while I used to publish a weekly labor blogging roundup. Basically, it involved doing a lot of searches to find union type content. This was from about Fall 2004 through the end of 2005, I think. At the peak there were maybe four or five blogs dedicated to labor blogging (House of Labor, Working Life, Confined Space, Andy Stern's thing come to mind), and every now and then a conversation would erupt in the progressive blogosphere.
I gave up because it was a lot of work (six or seven hours a week) and I think Mark Dilley was the only person who read it. Also, I got a job in the labor movement.
More positively, my advice for finding interesting labor blogging is to fist use LabourStart to get an idea of what's going on and then use tools like Technorati or Google Blog Search to find blog entries about the news. Some of the most interesting labor blogs I've seen are blogs set up by rank and filers to chronicle their experience during a strike.
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