An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism Home Search About Us Contact Us Other Links Critics Corner The Cynosure Michael Bakunin William Godwin Emma Goldman Peter Kropotkin Errico Malatesta Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Max Stirner Murray Bookchin Noam Chomsky Bright but Lesser Lights Cold Off The Presses Pamphlets Periodicals Anarchist History Worldwide Movements First ...

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Photographic collection of child labor from the early 1900's.

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The Library of Congress Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse the Subject Index | List the Film Titles The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse ...

Rosie the Riveter - A website for women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II ...

A virtual museum exhibiting and cataloging the art of the labor movement and working people.

A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers. Sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society Introduction The United States has the bloodiest history of labor of any industrialized nation on Earth. It is a story rich in human drama and tragedy. It is also one of progress and hope. This is a resource that teachers of United States history can use to incorporate our rich social and ...

THE ORIGINS OF LABOR DAY September 2, 2001 The observance of Labor Day began over 100 years ago. Conceived by America's labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant elction-year compromise. Read about the turbulent circumstances of Labor Day's birth, ...

This collection showcases more than 3, 800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle for American workers' rights. These materials pertain to: the May 4, 1886 meeting and bombing; to the trial, conviction ...

As a result of a temporary closure due to repairs and the confusion about our planned move to a new location, it has been incorrectly perceived that we were permanently closed. We are not. We are open at our same location, same days and hours of operation. ...

OHS PLACES YHCIL ARCHIVES-LIBRARY HOURS ADMISSION LOCATION GENERAL INFORMATION SITE EDUCATION PROGRAMS GROUP TOURS Everybody breathing dirt, eating dirt---they call it pay dirt, for Youngstown clean would be Youngstown out of work... --Frank Bohn, 1915 The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor provides a dramatic overview of the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop July 3, 1934 President Roosevelt's National Longshoremen's Board Text of National Longshoremen's Board Statement Casualty List from the Riot Striker Found Dead in Auto July 4, 1934 I.A. Vows to Keep Port Open F.R. Board Wins Delay in Decison July 5, 1934 Bloody Thursday Riot S.F. Daily News Coverage Bloody Thursday Riot Chronicle Coverage ...

The Haymarket Tragedy During the nation-wide strike for the 8-hour workday, which began May 1, 1886, a mass meeting was held in the Chicago haymarket to protest a police action of the previous day in which workers were killed. When police ordered the protest meeting to disperse (peaceful though it was), a bomb was thrown by an unknown person, killing several officers. This became known as the ...

The Ludlow Massacre A lot more than 2, 000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at Ludlow. One of history's most dramatic confrontations between capital and labor the so-called Ludlow massacre took place at the mines of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I). The face-off raged for fourteen ...

The Homestead Strike 1892 by Cheri Goldner For almost five months in 1892, the Homestead lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited clashed over contract negotiations in what has become known as The Homestead Strike. The steel industry was crucial to Homestead, a borough situated on the left bank of the Monongahela River, just seven ...

The Haymarket Martyrs The Martyrs' Monument by sculptor, Albert Weinert, takes its inspiration from La Marseillaise , the national anthem of France. It was a favorite of Albert Parsons and he sang it in his cell just prior to his trip to the gallows. A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of the fallen hero, as the figure of Justice advances, resolutely toward the future. The story of the ...

A site dedicated to the explication of the Scopes Monkey Trial ...

A wide-ranging topic that includes unions and labor oganizations, working conditions, industrial safety, women and children in the world of work, history of various industries -- coal, steel, textiles, farming, mechanization of industry, labor legislation, social aspects. Child labor Women in the labor movement People and places in labor The role of government in laabor Science and ...

Volume Thirty-Seven 1995 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Pressures of PATCO: Strikes and Stress in the 1980s By Rebecca Pels On August 3, 1981 almost 13, 000 air traffic controllers went on strike after months of negotiations with the federal government. During the contract talks, Robert Poli, president of the Professional Air ...

The Pullman Strike The Pullman model town looks much as it did in 1894 at the time of the Great Pullman Strike. Weekdays, have lunch at the Florence Hotel, a wonderful old Victorian at 11111 S. Forrestville. Walk the streets. Look at the huge outdoor mural painting on the Visitors' Building. More murals are at the railroad underpass one street south on Cottage Grove Ave. The Florence serves a ...

Stephen Millies, The Ludlow Massacre and the Birth of Company Unions ...

Links *UMWA History *A People's History of the United States - by Howard Zinn Exerpt * We're Coming Colorado *The Ludlow Massacre and the Birth of CompanyUnions Labor History Page Home click here The Ludlow Massacre April 20, 1914 The date April 20, 1914 will forever be a day of infamy for American workers. On that day, 20 innocent men, women and children were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. The ...

George Seldes on San Francisco's Press and the 1934 General Strike First (there was) the San Francisco strike of 1934 when the press itself played the role of strikebreaker. This was something new. I had known that all Pittsburgh papers could more or less suppress news of a strike, but so far as I knew there had never been a planned campaign by united publishers. (It did of course happen in the ...

People & Events The Homestead Strike One of the most difficult episodes Andrew Carnegie's life -- and one that revealed the steel magnate's conflicting beliefs regarding the rights of labor -- was the bitter conflict in 1892 at his steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Carnegie's involvement in the union-breaking action left many men dead or wounded and forever tarnished Carnegie's reputation ...

Labor Studies and Radical History 50 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 ~ Phone: (415) 241-1370 Online Catalog Internet Links Home Page Collection Description Hours & Services Location & Map Online Exhibit Site Index Monthly Feature - July SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE Bibliography | Web Sites On July 5, 1934 police attacked striking longshore workers on the San Francisco waterfront. Nick ...

Publishing Information San Francisco and the General Strike By Paul S. Taylor and Norman Leon Gold What really happened in San Francisco's general strike What were the issues What do they mean to labor, employers, the community What of the vigilantes and their violent anti-Red campaign Two Californians here give the story down to date Survey Graphic, September, 1934 (Vol. 23, No. 9), p. 405.

San Francisco General Strike, 1934 Workers Burn Bluebooks Source: Shaping San Francisco Harry Bridges Confronts police Source: ILWU Source: Shaping San Francisco Source: Museum of the City of San Francisco Return to History 427 Syllabus ...

Longshoreman's Strike of 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed our nation had a rendezvous with destiny, that is, the American people would survive the Great Depression and achieve unparalleled economic and social well-being. In some ways American labor gained a measure of FDR's dream during the 1930's. After a century of unending struggles for the right of their unions to exist, the New ...

United States Strike Commission: THE PULLMAN STRIKE:ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS PULLMAN'S Palace Car Company is in the market at all times to obtain all possible contracts to build cars. Its relations with railroads, its large capital and surplus, its complete and well-located plant and efficient management enable it at all times to meet all competitors on at least equal terms... The depression of ...

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Vol.64/No.47 July 10, 2000 Unionists mark Ludlow massacre, today's battles BY LESLIE DORK AND JACK PARKER LUDLOW, Colorado--About 200 unionists and supporters gathered June 25 at the site of the 1914 Ludlow mine massacre. The commemoration is held annually to remember those who were martyred during battles to organize the Western coalfields. At least half the participants came from Pueblo, ...