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Dr. Steve Campbell Profile picture
@Historian_Steve
Sep 5, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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On this #LaborDay2022 I have provided some graphs and images on labor history and labor unions.

If you're teaching modern U.S. history and cover the Gilded Age, and want evidence of a "new Gilded Age," you may also find these useful. Enjoy!
As you might expect, union membership differs among states and regions in the U.S., and also private versus public sectors.
Relative social mobility, comparing different countries, from 2017
It's impossible to talk about labor unions in the U.S. without discussing the immense power and influence of corporations, the Constitution, our anti-union (and illegitimate?) Supreme Court, dark money lobbying, and tax rates.
This is from Jonathan Levy's Ages of American Capitalism. As labor's share of income decreases, corporate profits increase.
Members of the House of Representatives are more responsive to the needs of the working class and poor in districts that have high union membership.

washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
This uses data from Picketty and Saez
Very alarming stats on the pay of CEOs and how much wealth the 1% own. Thanks to @Claudia_Sahm for the graph in orange.
Don't forget that the 2017 Trump* tax cuts were outlandishly and immorally generous toward the very rich.
Remember these trends the next time someone says they don't like paying taxes or believes in tax cuts. EVERY GOP tax cut since the 1980s has delivered most of the gains to the very rich.

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Mar 13
1/ THREAD. How do we know the #CivilWar was caused by #slavery? Academic historians will know this but this is intended for others.

It's not enough just to say it. Let's get the evidence out there. Image
2/ Look at the facts and circumstances involving the explosive events of the 1850s and Lincoln's election in 1860. Image
3/ Other causes that have historically been offered up are usually about slavery as an underlying cause.

What else but slavery caused economic differences and the collapse of the Second Party System? Image
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Aug 14, 2023
1/99. THREAD. I got inspired. I wanted to elaborate on what I said here.

I try to follow this issue closely and have saved many resources and bits of evidence, which I present here.

2/99. My core claim is:

a) GOP voters are misinformed about the seriousness of human-caused climate change (AGW) because:
b) they take cues from GOP political & media elites who:
c) are beholden to a well financed campaign of denial & deception from fossil fuel corporations.
3/99. Let’s start with voters. There’s a partisan & regional orientation to the distribution of Americans who think climate change is mostly caused by humans. Disappointing results from parts of Appalachia, the Gr Plains, and Mtn West overlap w/regions where conserv voters live.
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Mar 19, 2023
Some random, disconnected thoughts...are we at the beginning of a new financial crisis leading to a recession?

Well, we just don't know and so many economic predictions come from either blowhards or people who don't have any specialized predictive power.
For example, how often have you heard predictions of an imminent recession only to see the BLS comes out with a report saying we added 500,000 jobs per month? It seems like a discourse dominated by Republicans who just *wanted* a recession so they could blame it on Biden.
It's only about a week since we learned about a very large bank collapse. The *feel* (admittedly not very precise) of the headlines suggests that there is pain ahead and a lot of people are scared. In and of itself that can mean something since psychology influences the economy.
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Sep 4, 2022
Someone recently asked, Dead or Allmans? A brief thread that is somewhat akin to who's your favorite sports team, so it can get emotionally charged, especially with Deadheads, but in the end, let's not take this too seriously.

I like both bands but I'll vouch for the Dead...
This is a Wall of Sound show in England, Sept '74. So right before the classic show in Dijon, France and of course, before Winterland '74 that became part of the Grateful Dead movie and the Steal Your Face album.
The Wall of Sound was the HUGE, state-of-the-art sound system the Dead carried around to each venue, impressive even by today's standards, but finicky and costly to erect and dismantle. See an article here.

motherboard.vice.com/read/the-wall-…
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Sep 3, 2022
A lot of dissertations and books I come across in the field of history seem to favor breadth over depth. It seems so ubiquitous that it could easily pass without comment. Here's what I mean. I will come across something and look at the citations...
I see A LOT of secondary sources cited, which does take time and a certain amount of expertise and thinking to synthesize, but often feel unimpressed by the amount of primary sources cited. And since I've seen a lot of older works whose orientation is the opposite, I wonder...
how and why it became this way in academic history?

Your typical topic in academic history seems to take a group, commodity, or larger trend, and discuss it over a 50-year period, let's say. This contrasts with an in-depth study of a figure, election, or battle, for example.
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Aug 16, 2022
Historians ask questions and construct narratives and arguments based on the responses to those questions. Let's ask a few.

1. In 2003, what percentage of the world's oil did Iraq contain?

2. In 2003, how many metric tons of GHG did Americans emit compared to rest of world?
3. Do you think the answer to question #2 has any relationship to the answer to question #1. If so, what is it?

Once you're aware of that relationship, how do you now think reasons for the United States's invasion of Iraq in 2003, as publicly stated by the Bush administration?
Let's return to Question #2. Of the total amount of GHG emitted by Americans in 2003, what percentage comes from transportation?

In general, do Americans have larger cars compared to Europeans? What is our public transportation like? Do we tax and subsidize fossil fuels in...
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