Last week was the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. I was on the Real News Podcast with Mel Buer to discuss it. She's very good at talking about this stuff succinctly; I am less so. She lays out the history quickly and effectively and...
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This is a good project: But, later this year, following years of concerted effort by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a memorial to the victims and survivors of the.
Last week was the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. The historian Christopher Gorham places the current fight for higher minimum wages in the context of that tragedy. The national.
I may have linked to this before, back in the days before I created Film Club, but since we started the day with Samuel Slater, I figured we'd end it with the wages of textile production. 1912's The Crime of Carelessness is the loathsome, morally...
The Smithsonian Museum of American History is a complete disaster. Ever since the Enola Gay exhibit became a center of conservative culture war resentment in the 1990s, the Smithsonian has.
On March 4, 1933, the newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. This first female cabinet member in American history (the second wouldn't come.