Liberian Rubber Workers Triumphed Against Union Busting ^37.5%

Jacobin - By Andrew Tillett-Saks - 7/7/2026, 3:22 AM

Biased Writer Voice 40.3% - Negativity Bias 24.2% - Appeal to Emotion 18.9%

Stepping onto the Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia, the largest contiguous rubber plantation in the world at 185 square miles, is a step into the past — though which past or which historical moment is debatable. The “plantation,” as it’s officially referred to by Firestone, is at once reminiscent of American chattel slavery,... more