Today's Labor History

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: labor archivist Ben Blake talks about efforts to “document the now” during the recent government shutdown, and political science professor Marissa Martino Golden reveals that even with a president attempting to turn agency policy 180 degrees, most career civil servants are focused on doing their jobs. Interviews by Alan Wierdak and Patrick Dixon.

A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars—the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States - 1865
 
Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services.  

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