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#LabourHistory

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Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦

The Winnipeg General Strike: A Landmark Labour Conflict 🇨🇦

In May 1919, over 30,000 Winnipeg workers launched a general strike, paralyzing the city. Fueled by demands for fair wages, better conditions & collective bargaining, they faced fierce opposition. Though met with violence & arrests, this pivotal moment paved the way for significant labor reforms across Canada. ✊ 🇨🇦 #Canada #WinnipegStrike #LabourHistory

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦

The Winnipeg General Strike: A Landmark Labour Conflict 🇨🇦

In May 1919, over 30,000 Winnipeg workers launched a general strike, paralyzing the city. Fueled by demands for fair wages, better conditions & collective bargaining, they faced fierce opposition. Though met with violence & arrests, this pivotal moment paved the way for significant labor reforms across Canada. ✊ 🇨🇦 #Canada #WinnipegStrike #LabourHistory

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg

Daniel Carkner🥀

my dad (who is active with the Workers’ History Museum in Ottawa) asked me to share this Vancouver showing of one of their films tomorrow, June 3 at VIFF Centre here in #Vancouver
"Featuring hundreds of archival photographs and extracts from multiple historical sources [...]
Filmmaker Juan Andrés Bello will be in attendance and joined in conversation afterwards by representatives from the BC labour sector."
viff.org/whats-on/never-forgot

#documentary#LabourHistory#labor
Paria sans portefeuille

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-p

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

KPFAWhen Workers Shot Back | KPFAGuest: Robert Ovetz is a lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at San José State University. He writes about the politics of the labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. He is the author of the book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to … Continued
Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Orgreave Stations
6 Feb, Glasgow – free (booking required)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984/5 Miner’s Strike, poet William Hershaw & artist Les McConnell have used the Christian framework of “the Stations of the Cross” as an imaginative foundation to describe events leading up to the Battle of Orgreave.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-orgreav

EventbriteThe Orgreave StationsThe GalGael Trust invites you to an evening with the Fife poet William Hershaw.
#Scottish#literature#poetry
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IHC

Cláudia Ninhos is one of the authors of the paper ‘Travailleurs portugais et espagnols dans l'Allemagne nazie : trajectoires parallèles, chemins croisés’, published in the journal Exils et migrations ibériques aux XXe et XXIe siècles.

In it, the authors show how the life stories of Portuguese and Spanish labourers crossed paths several times in Nazi Germany.

👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-exils-et-

@histodons

#Histodons#NaziGermany#EuropeanHistory
Mainly Walking

Ventured across the Irwell to visit Salford. Our walk included a visit to Bexley Square. Here in 1931 citizens of Salford who were protesting against cuts in unemployment benefit were attacked by mounted police wielding batons. This event features in the novel 'Love on the Dole' and the film of the same name.

#salford#labourhistory#urbanwalk
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Hey Mac did ye see him as he cam in by Gorgie,
Awa ower the Lammerlaw and north o’ the Tay?
Yon man is comin’ and the hale toon is turnin’ oot,
We’re aa’ sair he’ll win back tae Glasga the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The John Maclean March”

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #socialism #Scotland #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside

2/2

Hear it sung by Dick Gaughan:
youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs5cyy5E

Rita Singer

ROBERT OWEN (d.1858), Utopian Socialist, was born #OnThisDay 1771.
'His business brought him to Scotland where he bought the New Lanark cotton mills for himself and his partners. There he initiated a great experiment in community building on which his fame rests. His work there entitles him to be called the pioneer in factory reform, the father of distributive co-operation, and the founder of nursery schools. His reputation was such that he was invited to advise on what should be done to meet the industrial crisis which followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars.' -- James Frederick Rees
biography.wales/article/s-OWEN

#Bywgraffiadur#Wales#histodons
maitiú ó móráin 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

'Regular full-time employment at a single job may seem like the natural way of things, but it is, in fact, a fairly recent phenomenon. Throughout European history before 1800, work took multiple forms and had varied meanings, motivations and outcomes. Making money was just a part of it, and often not a very important part.'

#History
#SideHustle
#GigEconomy
#LabourHistory
#FutureOfWork
#RegenerativeFutures

matthewmoran.online/2024/03/31

Matthew Moran · Before wage workRegular full-time employment at a single job may seem like the natural way of things, but it is, in fact, a fairly recent phenomenon. For hundreds of years before 1800, work took multiple forms and…
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