Today in #Connecticut History, September 12: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Teenage Summer in Simsbury

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#20thcentury #africanamericanhistory #agriculture #civilrights #connecticuthistory #jimcrow #laborhistory #martinlutherkingjr #mlk #segregation #september #simsbury #socialmovements #tobacco #work

Heute vor 30 Jahren starb Edward Palmer (E.P.) Thompson, britischer Sozialhistoriker, Sozialist, Wegbereiter der #GeschichteVonUnten, streitbarer Autor, Mitgründer mehrerer Zeitschriften (u.a. Past & Present), Antiatomwaffenaktivist ... ein kurzer Nachruf von Logie Barrow erschien seinerzeit in der #WerkstattGeschichte 6/1993, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/maennerleben-lebemaenner

#EPThompson #HistoryFromBelow #MoralEconomy #LaborHistory #Alltagsgeschichte #Sozialgeschichte #SocialHistory #RadicalHistory

My self novel "Bread" „Cash“ „Kohle“ „Le Fric“ is 2. part of the "Upheaval" trilogy.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #sexwork #union #marx #uprising #rebellion #duisburg #chicago #berlin #barcelona #book #Books

Today in #Connecticut History, August 7: Connecticut Grinds to an Angry Halt

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#20thcentury #august #bridgeport #businessandindustry #connecticuthistory #economichistory #laborhistory #newhaven #rockville #socialmovements #staffordsprings #strikes #transportationhistory #work #worldwari

Ada Nield Chew campaigned for the fair treatment of women factory workers. She turned to politics and became involved with the Independent Labour Party (ILP). She later joined the fight for women's suffrage. A campaign is now hoping to build a statue of her in Crewe so that her memory and achievements can be remembered.
#laborhistory #WomensRights

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-66302810

wow. How things have changed.

This was posted in a discussion about Europeans long vacations and American work culture.

Apparently US and European work hours were not that different until the 70s.

#USA #History #LaborHistory

RLM Arts Poster Catalog, p591: "Bread and Roses" (2002)

This is one of our most popular posters, and we offer it as a brilliant 17x22 screen print, or an 11x17 digital poster. The famous quote "The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too" is from feminist labor leader Rose Schneiderman in 1912.

Available here: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/what-she-wants-screenprint/

#MastoArt #FediGiftShop #Artwork #Union #Feminist #Labor #EconomicJustice #LaborHistory #USHistory

July 16, 1877 (136 years ago today): the #Baltimore Railroad Strike of 1877 began, as part of the national Great Railroad Strike of 1877. B&O Railroad announced 10% reduction of all wages, strike began on the day this was to go into effect (July 16). Federal troops called in, about 1,000 arrests & 100 deaths. Built momentum for national labor movement.
#OTD #TDIH #LaborHistory
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Railroad_Strike_plaque,_Baltimore_01_%28cropped%29.jpg

Today’s Floating Feature is Workers of the World, Unite!

In the time period you study, how did workers understand their work? Was there a system of class, or class consciousness, among workers?

Come and share with us! Or just come read some history of strikes, mutinies, and protests.

#history #histodons #laborhistory

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14yjcge/floating_feature_workers_of_the_world_unite/

Today’s Floating Feature is Everybody’s Working for the Weekend.

What did a day in the life of people who you study look like? Come share with us!

#history #histodons #laborhistory

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14uuu0w/floating_feature_everybodys_working_for_the/

Battle of Homestead, a violent confrontation laying bare the opposing positions of America's late 19th century laboring & capitalist ruling classes, began 131 years ago today.

For all the lecturing & writing & somber reflections, little space has ever been created to talk about Homestead's women. And only one was ever named in contemporary accounts: Margaret Finch.

I resolved to tell her story:
http://historicaldilettante.blogspot.com/2019/04/bearing-witness-to-beldam-mother-finch.html

#Pittsburgh #pittsburghhistory #battleofhomestead #laborhistory

Reminded today of Alistair Hulett's compelling song 'Blue Murder', about blue asbestos mining in West Australia. It's so powerful in its anger and so powerless against the scale of industrial negligence. 🧵/1

Blue Murder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBbTGGn5CM&t=50s

CW for thread: Racism against Indigenous Australians; asbestos-related diseases

#FolkSong #FolkMusic #Socialism #Capitalism #Asbestos #PoliticalSong #Mining #LabourHistory #LaborHistory

June 8, 1937 (86 years ago today), United Auto Workers members at GM’s #Baltimore plant went on strike to protest management refusing to remove an anti-union worker. Whole plant walked out for a week, protesting anti-union harassment and relentless efforts to speed up production. #LaborHistory
Citation: Andor Skotnes, *A New Deal for All?: Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013), Kindle edition, 241.

Fun fact: According to @nfrykman in his wonderful "The Bloody Flag - Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution", in 1768, sailors on the Thames River struck their sails in protest, and this was the origin of the term 'strike'.
#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #protest #Maritime

RT @MikeDunnAuthor Massacre; Tiananmen Square

Today in Labor History April 15, 1989: The Tiananmen Square protests began in China on this day. The demonstrations started in response to the death of a reformist leader, Hu Yaobang. At the height of the protests, over 1 million people occupied the square. On June 4, the Chinese government declared martial law and sent in the military to ..

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #students #TiananmenSquare #china #massacre

Today in #Connecticut History, May 30: 12,000 Bridgeport Workers Mobilize to Support Striking Trolleymen

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#20thcentury #bridgeport #businessandindustry #connecticuthistory #economichistory #industrialhistory #laborhistory #may #railroad #unions #work

BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update 5/29/2023

-Thousands rally for striking WGA Workers in downtown Los Angeles
-Remembering the Memorial Day Massacre
-Organizing Despite Worker Turnover
- United Mine Workers of America And Major Coal Operators Both Support Andy Beshear For Reelection
-MORE..

https://www.bluecollarwriter.com/home/news052923

#1u #WritersStrike #Unions #UnionStrong #LaborHistory

Thanks very much to all of the @histodons who are suggesting solutions to the 1867 payroll mystery. I'm getting many excellent leads. A bit of background: these particular workers (in West Warren, MA) were assigned to a carding room rather than a weaving or spinning room. They fed unspun cotton into machines, more or less as shown in the video below. Many of them were children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMFfiVUHUg

#LaborHistory #Victorian #IndustrialRevolution

Hey @histodons, I have a puzzle for you. I'm looking at a payroll register from a cotton mill in 1867 and can't figure out what the columns signify. They're unlabeled. The center column makes sense as amount of money earned, and you'd expect the two to the left to be # of hours worked and rate of pay. But there's no way to combine cols. 1 and 2 in such a way that you get the values in col. 3. Also, the writer uses both superscripts (e.g., 26²) and dashes. I'm stumped.

#LaborHistory #histodons

“ 'The mass media, right up to The New York Times, was supporting the police story that they had no choice but to open fire on this mob,' says #GregMitchell, who directed the new PBS #documentary #MemorialDayMassacreWorkersDieFilmBuried, and edited a companion book that is the first oral history on the tragedy."

#MemorialDayMassacre: #Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/26/memorial_day_massacre_1937_greg_mitchell

#LaborHistory #USLaborHistory #PoliceViolence