The Winnipeg General Strike: A Landmark Labour Conflict 🇨🇦
In May 1919, over 30,000 Winnipeg workers launched a general strike, paralyzing the city. Fueled by demands for fair wages, better conditions & collective bargaining, they faced fierce opposition. Though met with violence & arrests, this pivotal moment paved the way for significant labor reforms across Canada. ✊ 🇨🇦 #Canada #WinnipegStrike #LabourHistory
In 1879, Bombay (today Mumbai) saw the opening of the workshops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company (GIPR) in Parel, the single largest industrial complex in the city at the time. On a site of roughly sixty acres it employed thousands of workers to maintain the locomotives and wagons that facilitated passenger travel and … Continue reading The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939
O programa do encontro "Nós Estamos Contigo na Casa: Trabalho doméstico e acção coletiva — Arquivos, memórias, testemunhos" já se encontra disponível no nosso site.
Vai decorrer na FCSH e no Centro Cultural Cabo Verde.
As inscrições estão abertas e são gratuitas!
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/estamos-contigo-casa/
#Histodons #History #Sociology #DomesticLabour #LabourHistory #Archives #TrabalhoDoméstico #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Arquivos
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- MUA Carnival Cruise ships exploitation
- HWU Strike Action
- PSA NSW David Dungay Jr. Plaque
Excerpt from Nick Everett address about the #firstNations #Pilbara Strike - May 1946 - at Perth Trades Hall held by the Perth Branch of the Australasian Society for the Study of #LabourHistory.
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/red-earth
#3CR #CommunityRadio #labourMovement #solidarity #strikes #unions
Headlines:- MUA Carnival Cruise ships exploitation- HWU Strike Action- PSA NSW David Dungay Jr. Plaque Main section:Academic Nick Everett Excerpt from address about the Pilbara Strike at Perth Trades Hall in 2024 as part of a symposium held by the Perth Branch of the Australasian Society for the Study of Labour History. ...The sheep's wool dragged and the squatters sworeAnd talked nice words till their tongues got soreAnd their bellies swelled with so much liesBut the blackfellers shooed them off like flies.
Really good series of posts from the Society for the Study of Labour History, on Places in Labour History:
The articles below were part of a series in which labour historians were asked to write about a place in labour history that they thought significant, either to them or more broadly. The series was…
Check out the programme for our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna: this year, the subject is "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".
It will take place in Bologna on 27 November.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/
#Histodons #Capitalism #TechnoCapitalism #Technology #GlobalInfraestructures #Infraestructures #Extractivism #GlobalEconomy #TransnationalCorporations #BigTech #LabourHistory #RentierCapitalism #TechnoFeudalism #RentExtraction #Bologna
General Strike 100
Just saw this through the People's History Museum:
'National museums, libraries, archives, community groups, and individuals across the UK are marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike.
This map brings together stories, exhibitions, and events to remember the strike and its impact on working people, as well as to highlight how these struggles connect to the present.'
#GeneralStrike100 #WorkingClassHistory #LabourHistory #LaborHistory
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
"I don’t believe it. I have always understood everything, but this! Why mix
together Budapest, libertarian Catalonia, workers councils, Reich, and de Sade?
Why? Why? Even Fourier is in there! Bakunin and the Canton Commune!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PVSD7R3JAyY
#renevienet #dialectics #french #cinema #situationism #detournement #guydebord #revolution #marxism #communism #martialarts #insurrection #history #labourhistory
‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’
Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness
of what he wanted and did not want
that raises eyebrows: when does the quixotic
begin to gel, begin to impress, at what point
of naked surprise?
—Edwin Morgan, “On John Maclean”
from COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦
German Historical Institute London
IHC
Peter Riley
British History Online
Ruth Salter
Guillaume le Rouge
Assoc for Scottish Literature