Category Archives: Labor

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George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War

George Orwell makes tea in a trench

Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike 1912

Flyer distributed in Lawrence, Massachusetts S...From the Harvard University Open Collection:

The Lawrence Strike of 1912 – John Bruce McPherson

The Trial of a New Society – Justus Ebert (IWW) – on the Ettor-Giovannitti-Caruso Case

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Spanish Civil War Poster:

English: Poster of the catalan JJLL during the...

 

Joe Hill Resources on the Web

Joe Hill, one of the pioneering protest singer...

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Bread and Roses Joe Hill Page

The Joe Hill Project

Wallace Stegner Talks Joe Hill

The Man who Never Died – NY Times Review

Joe Hill Lyrics

The Songs of Joe Hill

PBS: Joe Hill

Phil Ochs Sings Joe Hill (1968)

On Joe Hill’s Last Words

Holt Labor Library: Joe Hill

National Archives Hands Over Joe Hill’s Ashes to IWW (1988)

AFL-CIO Joe Hill Bio

ILWU Shuts Down Tacoma and Seattle Ports, Smashes Longview Terminal

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In what may be an early sign of rising tensions between labor and capital in an increasingly threatening labor environment, in response to police violence and employer intransigence, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down the ports of Seattle and Tacoma and long-simmering grievances boiled over at nearby Longview in the state of Washington this week….. MORE>>

Sacco and Vanzetti Links

Sacco and Vanzetti

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Tuesday August 23, 2011 marks the eighty-fourth anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The murder trial of two obscure Italian anarchists was one of the country’s most controversial and memorable cases. Much has been written already online about the saga, I will not add to the trove. Instead, a listing of internet sites for your review:

You decide….

The State of the Unions

Pullman strikers outside Arcade Building in Pu...

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Remembering Bloody Harlan County

Miners work in a mine with a low roof

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On May 5, 1931 the pot boiled over; in Harlan County Kentucky, heavily armed deputies and company men, called “gun thugs” by miners, confronted disgruntled union men on a road near Evarts. The coal miners, lean and tough from Kentucky mountain life, knew how to fight back… More>>