#LaborHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 43 people shared 229 posts with it — around 8 a day. Activity is up 0% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 7 with 35 posts.

Posts with #LaborHistory

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

7 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory 2/23/1903: Jean-Baptiste Clement died. Socialist. #ParisCommune. #Poet. Composer. One of the last on the barricades during the Commune. Helped found #Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party in 1890. #workingclass #singer #JeanBaptisteClement #barricades #prison #socialism

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Clément by Félix Nadar, 1900, sporting a bushy moustache and a wide-brimmed Bowler hat. By Nadar - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3933545

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

7 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory 2/24/1912: #police beat up #women & #children during #IWW led #BreadAndRoses textile #strike in Lawrence, #Massachusetts. 3 people died. 300 arrested. 2 IWW organizers framed for murder. #workingclass #massacre #policebrutality #murder #prison #union #solidarity

Crowd of women holding up picket signs during the Lawrence Textile Strike.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

2 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory, 7/19/1875: Alice Dunbar Nelson was born. #HarlemRenaissance, #poetry, #feminism, #activism. #LGBTQ. Cofounded Equal Suffrage Study Club. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. #racism #lynching #womensrights #poet #books #writer #equalrights #writingcommunity #authors

Grainy portrait of a young Alice Dunbar Nelson

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory 12/16/1977: 8 #women in Willmar, #Minnesota, launched the 1st bank workers #strike in U.S. history. Protesting discrimination & unequal pay. Picketed when wind chill was -70 F #workingclass #banks #solidarity #feminism #equalpay #sexism #discrimination

Image of the Willmar 8 picketing Citizens National. By http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?article_1_70, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38561548

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

2 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory 7/16/1862: #IdaBWells was born into #slavery in #Mississippi. #Journalism. Cofounded #NAACP. Anti-lynching campaign, after 3 black men murdered in #Memphis, Tennessee.

Wells, c. 1893, wearing a dark, lacy top and looking to the side. By Original: Mary GarrityRestored byAdam CuerdenDescriptionBritishImage restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and WikipedianAs Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Date of birth8 June 1979Location of birthUnited States of America - Based on image originally from NAEMVZELXQV2iw — Google Arts & Culture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28135837

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

12 months ago

Today in #LaborHistory September 27, 1962: Rachel Carson's book #SilentSpring was published, ushering in the modern environmental movement & creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. #environment #ecology #activism #books #writer #author #nonfiction

Cover of the first edition, with yellow title against a green background. By http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10564416107, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48694009

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San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO

@sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

On March 25th, 1911, greed and negligence killed 146 garment workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Nearly all of those killed were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant girls between 14 and 23. #unionhistory #laborhistory #1u #solidarity #triangleshirtwaist🧵

Graphic reading "Honoring union history: Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, March 25, 1911." Graphic features an image of a headline from the fire announcing 150 women and girls dying in the blaze, and an image of workers marching days after the accident.

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Organized Power in Numbers

@opinorg.bsky.social

2 months ago

Did you know labor history could get this wild? Labor author & historian @kimkelly.bsky.social breaks down the Bisbee Deportation. Want to learn more labor history? Follow @opinorg.bsky.social for our upcoming Freedom Fridays series! #laborhistory #arizonaworkers #bisbeedeportation #arizonahistory

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AFSCME Archivist

@afscme-archivist.bsky.social

about 14 hours ago

Who’s already ready for spooky season?? Here are some things from the archives that give me nightmares 👻 #SpookySeason #Halloween #archives #LaborHistory

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

7 months ago

300 million workers shut down India last week in the largest strike in history. Blacked out by western media because this is the future the bosses all fear the most. peoplesdispatch.org/2026/…. #workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #india #students #women #solidarity #classwar

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300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India : Peoples Dispatch

The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with th...

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Union of Southern Service Workers

@raiseupthesouth.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

On this day in Southern Labor History, June 17, 1943, United Tobacco Workers Local 22 in Winston-Salem, NC started a sit-down strike against the R.J. Reynold company. #LaborHistory 🧵1/8

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Today in #LaborHistory 2/27/1902: John Steinbeck was born. #workingclass #novels about #union & #strike actions, incl Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice & Men, East of Eden. Bullied by #FBI & #IRS for #communism. Won #Nobel & #Pulitzer.