Tag Archives: Labor

1934: Striker

Posted on July 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Virginia Matthews, secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the United Textile Workers of America (1934) (source)

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1852: What, to the Slave

Posted on July 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading →

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1914: The Workers Produce Everything!

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The workers produce Everything! If you walk through the streets of a town or a city, and look around, Everything that you can see—Factories, Machinery, Houses, Railways, Tramways, Canals, Furniture, Clothing, Food and the very road or pavement you stand … Continue reading →

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1896: Stand True

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

TRADE-UNIONS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A TRADE-UNIONIST by John F. Sheehan I have been asked to defend trade-unionism. It is unnec­essary; trade-unions are their own defense: by the added comforts they bring into thousands of homes, through increased wages and … Continue reading →

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1982: Excess—The Factory

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

The great factory, the universe, the one that breathes for you. There’s no other air but what it pumps, expels. You are inside. All space is occupied : all has become waste. The skin, the teeth, the gaze. You move … Continue reading →

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1900: Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union?

Posted on June 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

At the end of Cortland Meyer’s 1900 novel Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union? or Henry Fielding’s Dream (here), the title character—a working man and staunch trade unionist—has a dream of what it would be like to own and … Continue reading →

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1934: Slugged

Posted on June 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

Carl Williams, Organizer for the United Mine Workers, District 19; Harlan County, Kentucky, 1934 Written on image reverse: “Slugged.” (source)

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1832: Testimony

Posted on June 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

BURNS, CHARLES; age 13; examined 1st June, 1832 1. What were your hours of working at Mr. Hives, of Leeds? ⸺From half past five in the morning till eight at night. 2. Had you any time allowed you for your … Continue reading →

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1928: What Work Is

Posted on June 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

August Sandler: Bricklayer (1928) (source)

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3rd Century AD: A Slave Rebellion on Chios

Posted on June 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Athenaeus of Naucratis relates the story of a slave revolt in an early 3rd-century Greek work called the Deipnosophistae. It takes place on the Greek island of Chios, close to what is now Turkey. Athenaeus first explains that, unlike other … Continue reading →

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