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#tdih 1887: Thibodaux Massacre. Louisiana militia shot & killed 30 to 60 unarmed Black sugarcane workers, on strike over meager pay issued in scrip, not cash.
No federal inquiry. Assassins unpunished. #terrorism #laborhistory #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️
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No federal inquiry. Assassins unpunished. #terrorism #laborhistory #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/thib…
Thibodaux is one of countless massacres in US history to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic adv't, education, press freedom, religion, LGBTQ rights, &/or labor rights. (Often called "race riots," they were to maintain white supremacy.) See ⬇️
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To #TeachReconstruction, we offer lessons for gr. 7+, student project to make local Reconstruction history visible, national report, open letter from scholars, & recommended teaching guides, K-12 books, podcasts, primary doc collections, & films.
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In 2003, Romania passes a new Labour Code replacing the one from communist times (1972). The unions were so strong that they came together and pressured the government to pass it without even going for a vote in Parliament. #Union #laborhistory
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The business groups were angry, of course, but given how limited their influence was, since tripartism was so new, they had no power.
Also Romania was preparing to join the European Union and changing the Labour Code was necessary.
Also Romania was preparing to join the European Union and changing the Labour Code was necessary.
This new Labour Code was extremely pro-labour. What did IMF and World Bank do? They expressed their concerns with regards to it and warned that they will start talks with the Romanian government to change it.
In the 1990s, Romanian unions knew no limits, fought against one another, mobilized masses against the government. The unions gave the Prime Minister, Ciorbea in 1996. Then they pushed him down. #laborhistory @ituc @etuc_ces
In 1990, the PM Petre Roman tries to issue a moratorium on strikes, saying that we must stabilize the economy. The workers go on strike, even if their unions approve or not.
Those were not easy strikes, but full on assault on company HQs.
Those were not easy strikes, but full on assault on company HQs.
In 1991, the first Law on Labor Unions is passed, aimed at limiting union dissent. Workers ignored it and struck whenever they saw this to be in their interest.
As someone who knows more than a little about the history of the railway industry and occupational and public health (both US and UK, actually), I'm rendered almost speechless by what is happening with the possible strikes in the U.S.
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I firmly believe that it is difficult to understand contemporary problems in public health policy and even health care policy in the US w/o really integrating the histories of the railway industry and railway medicine. The connections are LEGION.
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They include:
- basic reasons why private health care is provided by third parties rather than directly from corporations and employers;
- the origins of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in regulated industries;
- accusations of #malingering and feigned illness in social policy;
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- basic reasons why private health care is provided by third parties rather than directly from corporations and employers;
- the origins of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in regulated industries;
- accusations of #malingering and feigned illness in social policy;
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1/ As we celebrate #LaborDay an often overlooked facet is the history of the Labor movement and how workers seeking better pay and conditions often were met with fatal force, extradition or arrest. 
2/ This includes the #GreatRailroadStrike of 1877 in which the National Guard and federal troops were used to suppress the strike and fired into crowds with an estimated 100 deaths nationwide. #LaborDay
3/ The 1886 #BayViewMassacre in Milwaukee in which the state militia opened fire against peaceful demonstrators calling for an 8-hr workday killing 15. #LaborDay
This #LaborDay we’re highlighting some lessons in solidarity from Japanese and Mexican Americans’ 100+ years of shared farm labor history. 🧵 densho.org/catalyst/japan…
While the two groups were on opposing sides in many of these encounters, there were also remarkable instances of unity—like the multiracial union organizing that formed the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association in turn-of-the-century Oxnard, California.
In 1897, East Coast sugar magnates Henry, James, Benjamin, and Robert Oxnard had founded the American Beet Sugar Company and developed acres of fields on land that had, within recent living memory, belonged to Mexico and Chumash Indians.
#LaborDay thread on #academic labor.
Renewed @AAUP chapter at #Wesleyan @WesleyanAAUP has compelling hist of fac/admin relations & negotiations ca 1916-2000
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--AAUP key but not strongest tool for labor
--instead Junior fac self-org & info sharing
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Renewed @AAUP chapter at #Wesleyan @WesleyanAAUP has compelling hist of fac/admin relations & negotiations ca 1916-2000
TL;DR
--AAUP key but not strongest tool for labor
--instead Junior fac self-org & info sharing
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Acc. to this hist, key contexts for #Wesleyan’s AAUP:
-- a rich lib arts college into #highered “experimentation”
-- a “Little Uni” w/ PhD progs in sciences
-- square circle: low tenure density & high contingency
-- longstanding Junior Faculty Org (JFO) addressed contradiction
Acc. to this hist, key contexts for #Wesleyan’s AAUP:
-- a rich lib arts college into #highered “experimentation”
-- a “Little Uni” w/ PhD progs in sciences
-- square circle: low tenure density & high contingency
-- longstanding Junior Faculty Org (JFO) addressed contradiction
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@WesleyanAAUP hist notes contradictions in 1915-17 statements of @AAUP prez John #Dewey & co-found Arthur Lovejoy:
profs + trusteees collab on everything to do w/ education (curriculum to budget to donations);
admin there to "implement".
Nonetheless: profs salaried employees.
@WesleyanAAUP hist notes contradictions in 1915-17 statements of @AAUP prez John #Dewey & co-found Arthur Lovejoy:
profs + trusteees collab on everything to do w/ education (curriculum to budget to donations);
admin there to "implement".
Nonetheless: profs salaried employees.
Here it is! My 🧵 on the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, one of the largest and most significant industrial disasters in American history. #TriangleShirtwaistFactory #WomensHistoryMonth #laborhistory
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This disaster is a fascinating intersection of women’s history and labor history, and imho does not get enough credit for being as influential as it was.
So let’s dig in, shall we?
#TriangleShirtwaistFactory
@tourguidetell
So let’s dig in, shall we?
#TriangleShirtwaistFactory
@tourguidetell
First off, what exactly is a shirtwaist??
Great question. It looks like this:
Great question. It looks like this:
New #womenshistorymonth thread. Most people are familiar with the idea of the stereotypical 1950s #housewife, popularized by TV sitcoms, like Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. #whm2021 @womnknowhistory (1/15)
That imagery, though, is flawed because it overlooks the paradoxical impact of #WWII and its effect on women’s participation in the workforce. #womenshistory #whm2021 #twitterstorians (2/15)
#WWII made extraordinary economic demands on women and it pulled an unprecedented number of women into the labor force. #laborhistory #genderhistory (3/15)
#tdih 1979, the Boston University faculty union called a strike. Howard Zinn was one of the strike committee co-chairs. Read below what he wrote about the strike in his autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train." #laborhistory zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bost…
BU alum @dcolapinto said: "Labor leaders [like Cesar Chavez] would come to say a few words in solidarity with striking workers. The librarian union and clerical & staff unions joined the faculty strike." More strike photos by Spencer Grant⬇️via @BPLBoston. flickr.com/photos/boston_…
A few faculty members (“B.U. Five,” as they came to be known), decided to show solidarity with the staff and librarian strikers by holding classes outside or off-campus. That’s when B.U. President John Silber escalated the fight. Read ⬇️by @dcolapinto howardzinn.org/who-were-bosto…
