This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Pins & Needles’ mass appeal. Last week’s show: Finnish North American working class women and music in the early 20th Century. “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.; “I’m not a lady, I’m a hell-raiser!” – 1930 Unionists and activists shut down World Trade Organization meeting, Seattle, Wash. – 1999 David Prosten Comments are closed.
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