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Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's (U of Illinois Press, 1961), strong on clothing, teamsters, steel, meat packing. online; Roscigno, Vincent J. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 (2004) online; Taft, Philip. The AF of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger (Harper ...
American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930) July 1903 (United States) Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones leads child workers in demanding a 55-hour work week. 1904 (United States) New York City Interborough Rapid Transit Strike. [25] 1904 (United States) United Packinghouse Workers of America. [25] 1904 (United States)
"The labor problem" is the economics term widely used toward the turn of the 20th century with various applications. [1] It has been defined in many ways, such as "the problem of improving the conditions of employment of the wage-earning classes."
Border patrolmen greeted by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Washington, D.C., 1935. Credit - Bettmann Archive / Getty Images. P resident Donald Trump has promised the largest deportation ...
Labor unions became a central element of the New Deal coalition that dominated national politics from the 1930s into the mid-1960s during the Fifth Party System. [1] Liberal Republicans who supported unions in the Northeast lost power after 1964.
The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
This category is for labor disputes and strikes in the decade 1930s. 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; ... Pages in category "1930s labor disputes and ...
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '30s" or "the Thirties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939.