Friday, September 25, 2015

Toledo Under the Golden Rule

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View on YouTube Pope Francis, in his speech on Thursday (September 24, 2015), invoked the " Golden Rule "--"Do Unto Others...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Workers in Labor's Golden Age, 1950-1980

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In 1954, union membership as a percentage of the entire US workforce reached an all-time high of almost 35% (although the absolute high...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Rise of the CIO

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The video shown in class Monday is Sit-Down and Fight: Walter Reuther and the UAW . Material below will supplement the viewing of that video...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

The Early 20th Century Rise and Fall of the Labor Movement

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I)        I.               The Expansion of the AFL A. Wilson Administration--Woodrow Wilson's administration courted the support ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

The IWW and Class Warfare in the Early 20th Century

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I. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) A. Founding 1. The Continental Congress of the Working Class--The IWW was founded at a ...

Labor and the Progressive Movement

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I. Employers and Unions: A New Understanding A. The Imperial Impulse--The War With Spain 1. The War for Capitalist Markets 2. The ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

The "Pure and Simple Unionsim" of the American Federation of Laboir

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Samuel Gompers, ca. 1890 A)       Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Union (FOTLU) – founded in 1881 as an umbrella organizat...