On January 18, 1887, Pinkerton detectives killed a fourteen year old boy in Jersey City, New Jersey during a coal wharves strike. This murder, like so many of the period.
On November 26, 1910, a factory building in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 textile workers. This should have been a call to arms for workplace safety reform,.
At RI Future, I reviewed Cedric de Leon's new book The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. An excerpt. Scholars are beginning to rethink the Gilded.
Above: The victims of the Triangle Fire, i.e., the libertarian vision of America's future Brian Beutler's piece on libertarians' goal to return the U.S. to the Lochner Era through the.
On August 20, 1866, the National Labor Union, the first labor union federation in U.S. history, demanded Congress implement a national 8-hour day. It led to a partial and fleeting.
I don't read much, or really any, political theory at this point in my life. It's an important field but I have little background in it and the start-up cost.
Robert La Follette I tend to choose books for review here rather randomly, often picking something off the new book shelf at my university's library. So when I saw Michael.
If there's one reason to study the 19th century, it's to learn lessons on how to raise children. Today's children are so spoiled, what with their education and not working.
