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On March 4, 1886, during a protest march against police brutality in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb went off in the middle of a group of policemen, killing 7 officers. The aftermath of the Haymarket bombing showed the fear American capitalists had of working-class ideologies,...

Labor Notes

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On May 3, 2012

1. You've probably heard of employers asking for job applicants Facebook passwords. But it gets worse. They are also asking for last year's W-2 forms. Why? So they can see.

May Day

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On May 1, 2012

Your must-read for May 1 is Jacob Remes' essay on the history of May Day and its meanings for the present. An excerpt: Yet in the United States, with some.

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On April 30, 1894, Coxey's Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. Articulating ideas that would be accepted by New Dealers forty years later, Coxey's Army scared the nation's political and capitalist elites, who feared...

Labor Notes

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On April 18, 2012

Too many good labor stories out there to talk about them separately. 1. I'm sure that the union-based recall challenge against Scott Walker will be super successful so long as.

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