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Tag Archives: Labor
1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery
In 1942, in an effort to avoid strikes in war-related industries, Franklin Roosevelt reinstated the War Labor Board and directed it to oversee and arbitrate negotiations between unions and employers. Most unions had also agreed not to strike during the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Hall, Harry S. Truman, Industry, Labor, Montgomery Ward, Photography, Sewell Avery, Strikes, Unions, USA, WWII
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1937: The Building of Tidewater
John Noble: The Building of Tidewater (c.1937)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Industry, John Noble, Labor, Painting, Rivers, USA
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15 mya: Oecophylla
Up to hundreds of weaver ants…line up side by side in militarily precise rows. They grip the edge of one leaf with the claws and pads of their hindlegs and the edge of the other with their jaws and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, Africa, Animals, Ants, Architecture, Bert Hölldobler, Books, E. O. Wilson, Germany, Insects, Labor, Miocene epoch, Photography, USA
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1945: With These Blows of My Hammer
On September 14, 1945, trade unionist Paul Bebert, a former concentration camp prisoner, destroyed the swastikas that Nazis has affixed to union offices in Hamburg. He read this statement to the crowd: With these blows of my hammer I will … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Fascism, Germany, Labor, Paul Bebert, Unions, WWII
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1987: Basebenzi Masimanyane
Congress of South African Trade Unions: 1987 Calendar In 1987, COSATU conducted a two-day strike during the general elections in May as part of its Living Wage Campaign. More than 2.5 million workers took part. Later that month, their headquarters … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Africa, Civil Rights, Labor, Mines, South Africa, Strikes, Unions
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1891: May Day
Happy May Day! Walter Crane: The Triumph of Labour (1891)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Great Britain, Labor, Printmaking, Socialism & Communism, Walter Crane
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1865: An Army of Striking Labor
In Black Reconstruction in America (1935), W. E. B. Du Bois argues that a “general strike” by millions of enslaved African-Americans decided the outcome of the civil war. By rebelling against their masters, abandoning southern plantations, contributing their labor to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 1930's, 19th Century, 20th Century, African-Americans, American Civil War, Art, Books, Currier & Ives, Labor, Printmaking, Slavery, Strikes, W. E. B. Du Bois
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