Author: Kyle Friend

The first NYLHA book review of the decade is here! Click here to read Prof. Steve Golin’s review of Eric Blanc’s new book, Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics.

The NYLHA is thrilled to publish another book review before the end of the year. This review, by Prof. Melvyn Dubofsky of SUNY Binghamton, takes a look at longtime New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse’s acclaimed new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.

Read the review here.

Marvin Miller, who headed the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966-82 and revolutionized labor relations in American professional sports, was elected yesterday to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent said upon learning of his death in 2012 that Miller is “the most important baseball figure of the last 50 years. He changed not just the sport but the business of the sport permanently, and he truly emancipated the baseball player – and in the process, all professional athletes.”

Read about his election to the Hall of Fame here. The NYLHA penned a resolution in October supporting the Brooklynite’s election to the Hall.