Tag Archives: Labor

1892: How to Deal with Scabs

Posted on May 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

CLEVERLY CAPTURED A very clever piece of work was recently done by Thomas I. Kidd in preventing the bosses putting an end to the strike of the St. Louis machine woodworkers for a shorter working day. Mr. Kidd is the … Continue reading →

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312 BC: A Musicians’ Strike in Ancient Rome

Posted on May 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

It is…a mistaken idea to suppose that strikes are modern inventions. They are indeed of ancient origin. Livy speaks of an or­ganized strike in the year 312 b.c., the description of which, although sufficiently humorous to make a background to … Continue reading →

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1979: Eric Lanzetti Tells You What a Communist Is

Posted on May 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1938, after a childhood in a West Virginia mining town and a bright college career at Brown and Oxford, Eric Lanzetti —radicalized by the revolutionary fight against fascism in Spain—became a communist organizer on the Lower East Side of … Continue reading →

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1893: Cook’s Kitchen Mine

Posted on May 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

J. C. Burrow: Above The 406, Cook’s Kitchen Mine (1893) (source) Commissioned by its owner to showcase new mining technology, J.C. Burrow’s photographs of the Cook’s Kitchen Mine in Cornwall are some of the earliest examples of flash photography.  “The … Continue reading →

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