On September 19, 1935, a Soviet coal miner named Alexey Stakhanov mines 227 tons of coal. His work that day, beatified by the Soviet state as the saint to guide the new worker into the future, became such an ideal that the term Stakhanovite is...
This Day in Labor History
On September 12, 1934, the Rhode Island National Guard opened fire on a group of people loosely associated with striking textile workers in nearby mills who were throwing rocks and.
On September 4, 1907, about 500 white working men in Bellingham, Washington rioted against the arrival of Punjabi laborers in their border town. They wanted to round them up and.
On August 16, 2012, the South African Police Service killed 34 striking platinum miners. The Marikana Massacre was the most lethal use of force against civilians by the South African police since the Soweto Uprising in 1976 and was a sign of how the African...
On August 3, 1931, the Unemployed Council in Chicago led black residents in protecting the furniture of a 72 year old resident of South Side being evicted from her home.
On July 20, 1885, the British crown gave royal assent to the Chinese Immigration Act in Canada, which placed a $50 tax on Chinese workers and which reinforced the general.
On July 10, 1989 Soviet coal miners struck over their low wages and unsafe conditions. This was the most important internal labor uprising contributing to the fall of the Soviet Union. The great irony of state socialism in practice is that workers had no rights....
On July 1, 1847, the Factories Act of 1847 in Britain went into effect. This law limited hours in textile mills for women and children under 18 to 10 per.
On June 16, 1958, the Chicago Crossing Guards Association rejected an offer from AFSCME to join the union because these women did not believe the union would fight effectively for.
On June 9, 1941, the military, with support from the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Auto Workers, ended the North American Aviation strike in Los Angeles. This remarkable moment showed the transition away from the era of the mass strike and toward both...
On June 8, 1909 Washington's pioneering anti-tipping law went into effect. A goal of a lot of Progressives, this law attempted to end a labor practice that for the middle.
On June 6, 1844, George Williams founded the Young Men's Christian Association in London. While it was not really Williams' intention, the YMCA would later become a critical allly in.