This year marks the 95th anniversary of the 1926 textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey, when some 15,000 unskilled wool workers -- mostly immigrants and half of them women -- struck for more than a year for higher wages and better conditions. We talk about the strike and its relevance to today’s struggles with Jacob Zumoff, author of The Red Thread, the first comprehensive study of this historic strike.
This Friday, the biennial conference of LAWCHA – The Labor And Working Class History Association – kicks off. It’s being held online, making it available to labor history fans around the world. The theme this year is “Workers on the Front Lines”; LHT’s Patrick Dixon gets a preview from conference co-chair Peter Cole.
On today’s Labor History in 2: The year was 1934. That was the day Minneapolis Teamsters walked off the job.
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