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nesyanast · 6 months

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On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Jewish Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Dubbed the Uprising of the 20,000, it was the largest strike by women to date in American history. The young strikers’ courage, tenacity, and solidarity forced the predominantly male leadership in the “needle trades” and the American Federation of Labor to revise their entrenched prejudices against organizing women. The strikers won only a portion of their demands, but the uprising sparked five years of revolt that transformed the garment industry into one of the best-organized trades in the United States.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #judaism #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish reading #yiddish #Jewish women #American history #women's history #workers history #proletariat #1909 #nyc #workers strike

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allthecanadianpolitics · 9 months

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Earlier this year in Halifax, a former sex worker won a precedent-setting case. Brogan, the plaintiff, took a client to small claims court for not paying her and she won! It’s the first time a court has ruled on the enforceability of contracts between sex workers and their clients. It affirms what we’ve been saying all along: sex work is work!

In January of last year, Bradley Samuelson contacted Brogan on LeoList, an online advertising platform for sex workers. She told him her rate of $300 per hour plus transportation, he agreed and paid for her Uber to his apartment. She spent seven hours with her client, but after much wrangling, only got paid for an hour’s worth of work.

Unpacking the win

What’s really interesting about this decision is that the adjudicator gives not one, but two reasons why Brogan won her claim – the first being that a contract was established, the second being unjust enrichment. There is also a third reason that she deserved to win, but it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the ruling: the interconnectedness of payment and consent. I’ll be unpacking all three factors today. [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #Halifax #Nova Scotia #sex workers rights #workers' rights #workers history

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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers · 9 months

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This is a memorial from Roussay on Orkney to James Leonard, an early tennant organiser. He was ultimately evicted from his land by the infamous landlord Frederick William Traill-Burroughs. Following his eviction, three of his children died of diphtheria. But his work in organising the tennants and giving evidence to the Scottish government ultimately got more protections for the crofters and may have helped prevent other clearances on Orkney.

Despite this he failed to win protection in time for the crofters of Roussay, and the island's population has gone from over 1000 at the time of the clearances to less than 100 today.

James Leonard's words still ring true today: "I am prepared to speak the truth and will not be cowed by landlordism" and "We are under the despotism and terror of the landlord and we want that removed ; even though I should fail in this battle, I will fight it out."

Today, James Leonard's farm stands derelict, and the land he rented unfarmed. Meanwhile, Burrough's grand house was gutted by a fire in the 1980s and also currently stands empty.

#uk politics #uk history #tennants #organising #highland clearances #Orkney #Scotland #social history #workers history

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thoughtportal · 9 months

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#tiktok #folk streams #1980s #20th century #1900s #music #movies #documentary #film #history #working class #workers history #fiddle

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enbycrip · 7 months

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One of Glasgow’s famous house-end murals. This one, by Artist Mark Worst, shows St Thenue, now more commonly known as St Enoch, the mother of St Mungo, Glasgow’s patron saint. The mural is just off London Road facing up Abercromby street in Bridgeton.

The mural Illustrates St Thenue being guided across the Firth of Forth by a shoal of trout. The patterned shawl she wears features 29 motifs - a tribute to the 29 East End women who died in the 1889 Templeton factory disaster in which a wall collapsed onto a weaving shed.

#street art #glasgow #murals #art #scotland #modern history #industrial history #workers history

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perrysoup · 8 months

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Was the "9-5" job ever real? I'm legit asking. All my life I've know AT LEAST 8:30-5:30 with an unpaid lunch in it.

Was it ever a real thing, and if so, how did we give it up? Why did we give it up? I need to know!

#If it was real and we gave it up #How do we get it back?#workers rights #workers history #history #union #labor unions

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petitelappin · 7 months

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I can't stop reading the 1793 third edition of "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (originally published 1785). I have been irritating all my friends and coworkers with fun new terms like "That's the barber!" and "He looks like God's revenge against murder."

Anyway, Ash talked me into drawing some of the phrases and I ended up with these little mid-1780s Londoners.

#my art #digital art #history #18th century #the lads are sailors and the ladies are sex workers. i love looking at outfits in commercial prints of sex workers from the era

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neverwhere · 1 month

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✨✨ Congratulations to Sega of America and our INDUSTRY LEADING union contract ✨✨

With a gratifyingly massive vote in favour we ratified our contract guaranteeing worker protections, increased wages, credit for all games worked on and more!

We are the largest and only multi-department video game union, and hope this joyous news will encourage others to organize and fight for their own employee rights in our beloved, but layoff-plagued industry.

I'M SO PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF AEGIS 💙💙

#sega #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #video games #unions #atlus games #labor rights #WE DID IT #we're history makers!!#SONIC SAYS UNIONIZE #FIGHT FOR YOUR WORKER RIGHTS #if we did it so can youuuu

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leviathangourmet · 9 months

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#twitter #henry ford #history #workers rights #employment #capitalism

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marzipanandminutiae · 8 months

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tumblr: your boss is not your friend! they shouldn't be making you do emotional labor! work-life balance! do only what they pay you for and then check out! [to be clear, I agree with this sentiment]

also tumblr: omg why is this literary protagonist saying she's LONELY when there are SERVANTS ALL AROUND HER?! what a SNOB she is to not BEFRIEND THEM AND TELL THEM ALL HER TROUBLES!!!

#tell me you're not seeing it from the workers' perspective without telling me...#history #historical fiction #domestic work #domestic workers

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slithymomerath · 1 year

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“I am typing these words as June 2003 surges with Pride. What year is it now, as you read them? What has been won; what has been lost? I can’t see from here; I can’t predict. But I know this: You are experiencing the impact of what we in the movement take a stand on and fight for today. The present and past are the trajectory of the future. But the arc of history does not bend towards justice automatically—as the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, without struggle there is no progress . . .”

- Leslie Feinberg

#stone butch blues #leslie feinberg #activism #praxis #social justice #power to the people #workers of the world unite #communism #queer history #queer rights #queer

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shu-of-the-wind · 8 months

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okay because i am DEATHLY curious about this, please select from the options below. reblog with your country of origin as well please.

ETA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SNARKY: i am asking it this specific way with these specific poll options (american vs non-american) because it's my understanding and experience that most US state public schools actively suppress any teaching of labor history in any concrete way to the point of editing textbooks. i'm not trying to be an american exclusionist here or say that there weren't non-american labor movements. i'm saying that as a historian with degrees i have noticed that there is a very different attitude towards teaching labor history in the united states than there is in other countries. for fuck's sake.

#DEEPLY curious about this #labor history #history #poll #because i feel like a lot of americans don't actually realize that public schools (and private schools) teach JACK SHIT about labor history #the number of people i have met who have no idea what the battle of blair mountain is #anyway #shut up alix no one cares #labor rights #workers rights #sometimes alix goes viral

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sailoreuterpe · 1 year

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