On February 20, 1917, leftist women in New York City, led by the anarchist Marie Ganz, held a big protest against high food prices. This led to a boycott to drive prices down. It is also a great window into the history of women and...
women and work
On January 29, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. This narrow but important bill overturned Sam Alito's "logic" in deciding that women couldn't sue for pay discrimination.
On November 14, 1903, leading unionists and female reformers met in Boston to create the Women's Trade Union League. This was an effort to support unions for women workers and.
On October 16, 1937, the Buchanan Dam, which dammed the Colorado River of Texas, west of the town of Burnet, was dedicated. This event might not seem to have a major role in our labor history. But in fact, it and other dams completely transformed...
President Barak Obama Equal Pay Bill Signing East Room It's rare that a single person's fight for justice results in a law being named for them that will be remembered.
When I do research in newspapers, I find what I am looking for, but you also get distracted by all sorts of things. For example, I was looking in Oregon.
On July 19, 1935, leftist housewives in Detroit, led by a woman named Mary Zuk, began a meat boycott in outrage over high prices. This remarkable moment demonstrates the centrality of unpaid domestic labor to our labor history and our history of radicalism in ways...
Interesting breakdown in Variety about the role of women leading the writers strike. “Why did this strike look different? The people at the forefront of it really have been a.
I hate the false dichotomy above, which comes from this interview with the food writer Anya von Bremzen about her new book on national dishes, which includes a chapter on.
I've stated this before, but the late 60s and 70s are full of things that almost became law, did not, and then were just dropped from the progressive agenda. Among the better known of these things was the universal child care bill that Nixon vetoed...
On July 25, 1973, the Irish Minister of Finance, Richie Ryan, introduced the Civil Service (Employment of Married Women) Act, which ended the nation's long-standing ban on married women working.
On March 14, 1895, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected the state's eight hour law for women in Ritchie v. The People of the State of Illinois. It was another in.