Ileen A. DeVault
@iadevault.bsky.social
Historian of labor and gender in all of their manifestations. Professor at Cornell ILR School.
HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. That's how I learned to remember the Great Lakes. President has changed that now to SHAME if he really "renames" Ontario.
How appropriate.
How appropriate.
August 30, 2026 at 7:27 PM
HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. That's how I learned to remember the Great Lakes. President has changed that now to SHAME if he really "renames" Ontario.
How appropriate.
How appropriate.
July 4th 1976 in San Francisco.
Three years earlier massive public protests had helped end the Vietnam war despite draconian opposition from law enforcement.
Three years earlier massive public protests had helped end the Vietnam war despite draconian opposition from law enforcement.
July 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
July 4th 1976 in San Francisco.
Three years earlier massive public protests had helped end the Vietnam war despite draconian opposition from law enforcement.
Three years earlier massive public protests had helped end the Vietnam war despite draconian opposition from law enforcement.
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
April 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.” James Madison, 1793.
Read about it in: mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Read about it in: mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Who Makes War?
mailchi.mp
March 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.” James Madison, 1793.
Read about it in: mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Read about it in: mailchi.mp/historynewsn...
Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine
On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...
act.indivisible.org
March 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
All of us deserve a voice in our democracy - but President Trump & his allies in Congress are working to silence our voices with the SAVE America Act & the Make Elections Great Again Act. Tell your lawmaker to protect our right to vote! actionnetwork.org/letters/save... @aft.org
Tell lawmakers to protect voting rights & reject SAVE 2.0!
Every person in America deserves a voice and representation in our democracy - but President Trump & his allies in Congress are working to silence our voices with the SAVE America Act & the Make Elect...
actionnetwork.org
March 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
All of us deserve a voice in our democracy - but President Trump & his allies in Congress are working to silence our voices with the SAVE America Act & the Make Elections Great Again Act. Tell your lawmaker to protect our right to vote! actionnetwork.org/letters/save... @aft.org
🚨 STOP THE DEMOLITION of American Art--and of American history! The "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" is under threat. Ben Shahn's priceless 1942 murals could be destroyed FOREVER. Sign the petition: www.stopthedemolition.org
www.stopthedemolition.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM
🚨 STOP THE DEMOLITION of American Art--and of American history! The "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" is under threat. Ben Shahn's priceless 1942 murals could be destroyed FOREVER. Sign the petition: www.stopthedemolition.org
Tha 2025 Labor Roundtable event took place at ILR Cornell University this past Friday. 14 labor activists invited by student organizers talked labor for 3 and a half hours. Inspiration went both ways!
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Tha 2025 Labor Roundtable event took place at ILR Cornell University this past Friday. 14 labor activists invited by student organizers talked labor for 3 and a half hours. Inspiration went both ways!
How dare they besmirch such a beloved children's book.
"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How dare they besmirch such a beloved children's book.
The Texas State Board of Regents meet this Thursday and Friday to hear the final appeal of Prof. Tom Alter's case. If you are a faculty member anywhere, please sign onto the letter supporting his academic freedom case here:
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actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Academic Letter of Support for Dr. Tom Alter to be Reinstated at TXST, San Marcos
Dear Academic Supporter of Dr. Tom Alter, Tom Alter is undertaking a formal appeal of his firing from Texas State University, San Marcos. On November 10, a subcommittee of the Texas State University...
actionnetwork.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Texas State Board of Regents meet this Thursday and Friday to hear the final appeal of Prof. Tom Alter's case. If you are a faculty member anywhere, please sign onto the letter supporting his academic freedom case here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
At last, the Supreme Court did something correctly. Back to the focus on the ACA and SNAP benefits now.
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
At last, the Supreme Court did something correctly. Back to the focus on the ACA and SNAP benefits now.
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
Interesting story from my old friend from grad school, John Miller @portside.org
portside.org/2025-10-27/w...
portside.org/2025-10-27/w...
Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?
The U.S. economy continues to grow, at least for now. But job creation has come to a near halt. That got the attention of Federal Reserve Board chair Jerome Powell. In late September, he told the Pro...
portside.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Interesting story from my old friend from grad school, John Miller @portside.org
portside.org/2025-10-27/w...
portside.org/2025-10-27/w...
Spoke yesterday to my department (Global Labor and Work) here at the Cornell ILR School about my current book project, "'Where the wind blows in all directions': Logging Men and Families." Great audience with great comments!
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spoke yesterday to my department (Global Labor and Work) here at the Cornell ILR School about my current book project, "'Where the wind blows in all directions': Logging Men and Families." Great audience with great comments!
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
30-06-1918 USA: Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio
June 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
30-06-1918 USA: Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
Honor the hands that harvest your crops, build your cars, deliver your packages, and care for your elders. Honor your coworkers and neighbors with the kind of dignity and solidarity that sends shivers through the wealthy, powerful few at the top!
April 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Honor the hands that harvest your crops, build your cars, deliver your packages, and care for your elders. Honor your coworkers and neighbors with the kind of dignity and solidarity that sends shivers through the wealthy, powerful few at the top!
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
America’s unions and working people across the country will not accept cuts to essential services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security - just to give even more tax breaks to billionaires.
April 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
America’s unions and working people across the country will not accept cuts to essential services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security - just to give even more tax breaks to billionaires.
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
"The same people in the administration promising the return of domestic manufacturing and coal mining are also dismantling measures to keep workers safe. They’re the same people who don’t believe in a minimum wage that could feed a family. They’re the same people who want to see unions crushed."
Trump tries to restore a grim era for American workers
Make Black Lung Great Again.
www.publicnotice.co
April 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"The same people in the administration promising the return of domestic manufacturing and coal mining are also dismantling measures to keep workers safe. They’re the same people who don’t believe in a minimum wage that could feed a family. They’re the same people who want to see unions crushed."
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!
April 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!
Enough. Impeach Trump & Vance NOW.
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Enough. Impeach Trump & Vance NOW.
One key takeaway from Trump's tariffs and taxes speech last night:
DJT does not understand the definitions of either "tariff" OR "taxes".
The King Penguins on Heard Island understand those definitions better.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
DJT does not understand the definitions of either "tariff" OR "taxes".
The King Penguins on Heard Island understand those definitions better.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
One key takeaway from Trump's tariffs and taxes speech last night:
DJT does not understand the definitions of either "tariff" OR "taxes".
The King Penguins on Heard Island understand those definitions better.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
DJT does not understand the definitions of either "tariff" OR "taxes".
The King Penguins on Heard Island understand those definitions better.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Our friend showed up at the door on Saturday, with his new passport in hand and tears in his eyes. He had sent in his birth certificate and a copy of his driver's license, both of which describe him as male. The US Government, in its infinite wisdom, marked his sex as "F." #Transdayofvisibility.
March 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our friend showed up at the door on Saturday, with his new passport in hand and tears in his eyes. He had sent in his birth certificate and a copy of his driver's license, both of which describe him as male. The US Government, in its infinite wisdom, marked his sex as "F." #Transdayofvisibility.
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
LERA - an organization that includes labor, management, neutral, and academic members - deserves credit for speaking out about FMCS
Eliminating the FMCS is yet another statement of contempt for worker voice and the law of the land. The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) has it right:
March 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
LERA - an organization that includes labor, management, neutral, and academic members - deserves credit for speaking out about FMCS
Reposted by Ileen A. DeVault
#OnThisDay 114 years ago in 1911, one of the worst workplace disasters in history struck: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. As the workday was coming to an end, a fire erupted, claiming the lives of 146 out of 500 workers in just 18 minutes. Many exits were locked, trapping them inside. 1/2
March 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#OnThisDay 114 years ago in 1911, one of the worst workplace disasters in history struck: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. As the workday was coming to an end, a fire erupted, claiming the lives of 146 out of 500 workers in just 18 minutes. Many exits were locked, trapping them inside. 1/2
This is the sort of thing that many Americans tend to forget. The U.S. has been a nation of immigrants ever since we started stealing land from those who already lived here.
Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.”
Oh. The. Irony.
Oh. The. Irony.
Marco Rubio’s Policies Might Shut the Door to People Like His Grandfather (Published 2016)
Under the stricter screening Senator Marco Rubio now supports, his grandfather would most likely have been deported, depriving him of knowing the man he has called his mentor and closest boyhood frien...
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is the sort of thing that many Americans tend to forget. The U.S. has been a nation of immigrants ever since we started stealing land from those who already lived here.