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On January 1, 1867, a landowner named Isham Bailey signed a one-year sharecropping deal with freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts. While there is no obvious date to discuss sharecropping,.
On December 30, 1828, 400 of Dover, New Hampshire's approximately 800 "mill girls," women working in the new textile plants, walked off the job in one of the nation's first.
Chipotle is permanently on Santa's naughty list. But Santa is a pretty nice guy and he still gives naughty companies what they ask for. In this case, Chipotle had a.
The labor movement is deeply divided. You'd like to think that every labor union would be behind a larger progressive effort to create social and economic democracy. But you would.
On December 15, 1921, the Kansas National Guard arrived to break up women's marches in support of a strike of coal miners in southeastern Kansas. That intervention, done with the.
On December 14, 1945, the House passed what would become the Employment Act of 1946 once Harry Truman signed it. This was an important piece of legislation in moving the.
Educators with Acero charter schools strike outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters, 42 W. Madison St., before the start of the Chicago Board of Education monthly meeting,.
Above: General Electric president Gerald Swope David Leonhart had a piece in the Times yesterday that repeats a commonly-held notion about the mid-century American economy: that CEO's were kindlier and.