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Today's Labor History

11/20/2017

 
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Click here to check out Labor History Today, the brand-new podcast from Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. In this week's edition, Joe McCartin, David Fernandez-Barrial and Chris Garlock discuss Joe Hill, miners' battles for unions and job safety, NAFTA and the first organized walkout by teachers. Plus music from Patty Loveless, Hazel Dickens, Steve Earle and a clip from "Matewan"! 

First use of term “scab,” by Albany Typographical Society - 1816
 
Norman Thomas born, American socialist leader - 1884
 
The time clock is invented by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, N.Y. Bundy’s brother Harlow starts mass producing them a year later - 1888
 
Mine fire in Telluride, Colo., kills 28 miners, prompts union call for safer work conditions - 1901
 
A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company’s No. 9 mine in Farmington, W. Va. - 1968 
 
The Great Recession hits high gear when the stock market falls to its lowest level since 1997. Adding to the mess: a burst housing bubble and total incompetence and greed—some of it criminal—on the part of the nation’s largest banks and Wall Street investment firms. Officially, the recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009 - 2008

Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services


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