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THIS WEEK IN LABOR HISTORY - OCTOBER 10

10 Oct, 2017

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10 Oct, 2017

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THIS WEEK IN LABOR HISTORY - OCTOBER 10

Six days into a cotton field strike by 18,000 Mexican and Mexican-American workers in Pixley, Calif., four strikers are killed and six wounded; eight growers were indicted and charged with murder - 1933

THIS WEEK IN LABOR HISTORY - OCTOBER 10

This Week in Labor History - October 8

08 Oct, 2017

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08 Oct, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - October 8

Thirty of the city's 185 firefighters are injured battling the Great Chicago Fire, which burned for three days - 1871

This Week in Labor History - October 8

This Week in Labor History - October 7

07 Oct, 2017

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07 Oct, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - October 7

Joe Hill, labor leader and songwriter, born in Gavle, Sweden - 1879
 
The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded, becomes the AFL’s Building Trades Dept. five years later. SBTA’s mission: to provide a form to work out jurisdictional conflicts - 1903
 

This Week in Labor History - October 7

This Week in Labor History - October 3

03 Oct, 2017

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03 Oct, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - October 3

 

The state militia is called in after 164 high school students in Kincaid, Ill., go on strike when the school board buys coal from the scab Peabody Coal Co. - 1932

This Week in Labor History - October 3

This Week in Labor History - September 25

25 Sep, 2017

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25 Sep, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - September 25

American photographer Lewis Hine born in Oshkosh, Wisc. - 1874
(Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often life-threatening work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman. Photographer Lewis Hine–who himself died in poverty in 1940–did as much, and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by American capitalism.)

This Week in Labor History - September 25

This Week in Labor History - September 19

19 Sep, 2017

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19 Sep, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - September 19

Chinese coal miners forced out of Black Diamond, Wash. - 1885
 
Between 400,000 and 500,000 unionists converge on Washington D.C., for a Solidarity Day march and rally protesting Republican policies – 1981

This Week in Labor History - September 19