![]() This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Monopoly and Class Struggle: The games we play Last week’s show: Uprising of the 20,000 “Fighting Mary” Eliza McDowell, also known as the “Angel of the Stockyards,” born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women’s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 – 1854 Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md. - 1930 More than 12,000 members of the Insurance Agents Union strike in 35 states and Washington D.C. against the Prudential Insurance Co. - 1951 Unionists and activists shut down World Trade Organization meeting, Seattle, Wash. - 1999 - David Prosten Comments are closed.
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