On December 6, 1970, the Calumet Community Congress met for the first time. This movement to fight pollution in Gary, Indiana was one of many forms of working class environmentalism.
On September 22, 1919, steel workers went on strike in Pittsburgh and other steel cities. One of the most epic strikes of the post-World War I period, it was also.
Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in.
This is the grave of Charles Schwab. Born in 1862 in to German parents, Schwab grew up in the town of Loretto, Pennsylvania. He became a young protege of Andrew.
On July 28, 1933, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins gave a speech in Homestead, Pennsylvania. When the town's political leaders discovered she wanted to speak to workers outside the designated.
This is the grave of Tom Girdler, a terrible horrible no good American and a name you probably do not know at all. Born to a farming family in Indiana.
On June 17, 1936, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee was created. This pioneering industrial union was critical in the mass organizing of the nation's giant factories in arguably the nation's.
You mean that providing working-class people good paying jobs is a critical part of fighting poverty? And that industrial labor can make a huge difference in solving this problem? Amazing!!!.
