The Onion: Things To Never Say To A Teenage Factory Worker https://www.theonion.com/things-to-never-say-to-a-teenage-factory-worker-1850671285 #brucespringsteen #uptonsinclair #socialissues #mcdonalds #films #labor

Most of us can see this is true, but not *#TheEconomist*, which @delong calls "Neoliberalism’s Final Stronghold" in his *#ProjectSyndicate* article:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economist-writers-last-true-believers-in-neoliberalism-by-j-bradford-delong-2023-04

De Long's catalog of the recent bizarre, delusional work in *The Economist* embodies #UptonSinclair's maxim, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

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Today In Labor History April 3, 1913: Pietro Botto, socialist mayor of Haledon, N.J., invited the Paterson silk mill strikers to assemble in front of his house. 20,000 showed up to hear speakers from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Upton Sinclair, John Reed and others, who urged them to remain strong in their fight. The Patterson strike lasted from Feb. 1 until July 28, 1913. Workers were fighting for the eight-hour workday and better working conditions. Over 1800 workers were arrested during the strike, including IWW leaders Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Five were killed. Overall, the strike was poorly organized and confined to Paterson. The IWW, the main organizer of the strike, eventually gave up.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #Patterson #strike #IWW #union #anarchism #PoliceBrutality #socialism #UptonSinclair #JohnReed #BigBillHaywood #ElizabethGurleyFlynn

On peut supporter de vivre dans une caverne, en contempler les ombres, pourvu qu'une fois dans son existence on puisse briser ses chaînes, sentir ses ailes pousser, voir le soleil.

#UptonSinclair / La jungle (1906)

#Quotes #Trouble #ElizabethCorbett #UptonSinclair

"Most trouble is unnecessary....
But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work
and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding."
— ELIZABETH CORBETT

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
— UPTON SINCLAIR

Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.

The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,

For they are women's children, and we mother them again.

Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #BreadAndRoses #PoliceBrutality #union #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #BigBillHaywood #strike #picket #immigrants #poetry #novel #UptonSinclair @bookstadon

I've had a personal habit of never quitting #books once I start them, but slogging my way through this tedium has made me decide to change this policy. #UptonSinclair #Fox #Film #Cinema #BellLabs

@Syphilia Seriously! It is not that hard. Just stop buying and drinking #Starbucks and POOF! One no longer is complicit in that hypocritical enterprise's de-evolution into a #union busting overseer and robber baron. Calling #UptonSinclair! You can find decent #coffee that is not supporting that anti- #worker #fauxwoke #business.

#Capitalism #labor #labour #generalstrike #boycottstarbucks #BrewYourOwn #TryChai #AmateurChaiwallah

@Forticus der #OttfriedPreussler hat ja auch echt viel für die dt #Fantasy getan, wobei nach Kl Hexe/Gespenst/Wassermann mich der spätere #Krabat mehr beeindruckt hat. Habe Preussler auch 1x getroffen als er in #Passau den Dt Fantasypreis des #EDFC bekam, aber nur kurz gesprochen. / Was hat dich von #JohnSinclair (nehme an du meintest weder #UptonSinclair noch #SinclairLewis) und SpaceOpera zur Fantasy im #pnpde und #projektmyra #Weltenbau zurückgebracht?

Today in Labor History January 19, 1920: Crystal Eastman, Roger Nash Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (from the IWW) and others founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Their original focus was freedom of speech, primarily anti-war speech, and supporting conscientious objectors. In 1923, they defended author Upton Sinclair after he was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an IWW rally. In 1925, they persuaded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Clarence Darrow, an ACLU member, headed Scopes' legal team. The ACLU lost the case and Scopes was fined $100. In 1926, they defended H. L. Mencken, who deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned American Mercury magazine and won their first major acquittal. However, they kicked Elizabeth Gurley Flynn off their board in 1940 because of her Communist affiliations. And they refused defend Paul Robeson and other leftists in the 1950s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #communism #aclu #evolution #uptonsinclair #PaulRobeson #clarencedarrow #hlmencken @bookstadon

I'm going to start reading Sinclair's "Boston" soon. Has anyone read it, what do you think?
#UptonSinclair

“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded.”

- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

#UptonSinclair #SocialistFiction #PoliticalFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

@pzmyers@octodon.social

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

#UptonSinclair #quote

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it
#UptonSinclair