Lisa Phillips teaches labor, women’s, and African American history at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. She also serves as the secretary of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.

04.07.2024

• Lisa Phillips

To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO’s History

Declining union density has diminished American workers’ awareness of labor organizing, pride in union status, and sense of belonging to a tradition of collective struggle. The history of the CIO can teach us how to embed unions in the working class again.

08.10.2016

• Lisa Phillips

The Forgotten Union

District 65 grew powerful by organizing low-wage workers that had been ignored by the traditional labor movement.