Tag: labor

  • KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike

    In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker, and it…

  • Anna Louise Strong story

    Anna Louise Strong story Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919 and an early advocate of communism. Although she left the United States just as the Communist Party was starting, her return visits from the Soviet Union and later from China…

  • Parsons, Lucy Gonzales

    Parsons, Lucy Gonzales Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator. A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across the country and overseas. Lucy was an unrelenting agitator, leading…

  • Lucy Parsons Biography

    Lucy Parsons Biography Biographies on Lucy Parsons Challenging the blatant sexism of her time, Lucy Parsons, the wife of Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons, was one of the most influential women involved in the American anarchist and labor movements.

  • Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World

    Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. Its necessity is its excuse for existence. And for us to…

  • Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

    Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

  • The story of the Rebel Girl

    The story of the Rebel Girl “FOR PEACE and socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world…The ‘sun of tomorrow’ shines upon us. The future is ours.”

  • Flynn Biography

    Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in her professional and personal life, and dedicated her life to…

  • Notes on the 1946 General Strike

    When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to the city. For us, this video was a way to…

  • Oakland General Strike 1946

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  • 1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir

    1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946. The Oakland (California) General Strike was an extension of the national strike wave. It was not a ‘called’ strike. Shortly before 5 a.m., Monday, December 3, 1946, the…

  • 1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki

    1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki In 1946, the largest general strike in U.S. history took place in Oakland. The strike effectively shut the city down for nearly three days (1946) Protestors surround a mail truck at the Oakland General Strike of 1946 The 1946 Oakland General Strike…

  • The last Oakland general strike

    The last Oakland general strike

  • The 1946 Oakland General Strike

    The 1946 Oakland General Strike The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women) were on strike for union recognition.

  • The General Strike of 1934 – FoundSF

    The General Strike of 1934 – FoundSF The General Strike of 1934 Historical Essay by Chris Carlsson Strikers shot by police, July 5, 1934

  • Seattle General Strike 1919

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  • KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike

    In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker, and it…

  • Seattle General Strike

    Seattle General Strike The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first city-wide labor action in America to be proclaimed a “general strike.” It led off a tumultuous era of post-World War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation’s steel, coal, and meatpacking industries and…

  • The Wobblies Full Documentary

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  • IWW History Project

    IWW History Project Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, the organization grew…