On May 25, 1806, the Philadelphia Mayor's Court ruled in Commonwealth v. Pullis. This is the first known court case in American history about a strike. Of course, being controlled.
On May 15, 1984, about 5,000 sugar workers around the town of Guariba, Brazil went on strike. This little known moment of worker resistance happened because of the terrible working.
On May 2, 1972, a fire started in the Sunshine Mine, outside of Kellogg, Idaho. The fire filled the mine chambers with carbon monoxide and other poisonous gas. Of the.
On May 1, 2010, a group of 1,000 subcontractors from India and Nepal laboring in Iraq working for the U.S. military occupation went on a violent rampage against their terrible.
On April 23, 1927, a fire broke out at the Briggs auto plant in Detroit. It killed 21 workers. This terrible incident is a window into the racialized forms of.
On April 9, 1917, the Supreme Court upheld Oregon's new 10 hour day law for both men and women that also provided for overtime pay. The Court went away from.
On April 1, 1576, a report was published on another disease epidemic ripping through indigenous people in Mexico and undermining the Spanish forced labor force it relied on for colonization..
On March 22, 1879, the Socialist Labor Party held a giant celebration in Chicago to honor the Paris Commune. This moment is a good way to get into the history.
