November 20

First use of term “scab,” by Albany Typographical Society - 1816

Norman Thomas born, American socialist leader - 1884

The time clock is invented by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, N.Y. Bundy’s brother Harlow starts mass producing them a year later - 1888

Mine fire in Telluride, Colo., kills 28 miners, prompts union call for safer work conditions - 1901

78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company’s No. 9 mine in Farmington, W. Va. - 1968

The Great Recession hits high gear when the stock market falls to its lowest level since 1997.  Adding to the mess: a burst housing bubble and total incompetence and greed -- some of it criminal -- on the part of the nation’s largest banks and Wall Street investment firms.  Officially, the recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, but unemployment was still around the 8 percent mark three years later - 2008

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