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Worksite sights: from rolling mill to drone factory
https://nonsite.org/from-rolling-mill-to-drone-factory-the-sight-of-work/

#Art #Capitalism #drones #Factory #illustration #Paintings #Photography #workingclasshistory

From Rolling Mill to Drone Factory: The Sight of Work

Between the VW by the water tower and the masked chicken processor, then, there seems to me a deep connection. The one prepares the ground for the other. Labor under capitalism can eventually procl…

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Peter Riley 4d ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20201030130740/https://christiebooks.co.uk/

#Anarchism #Archives #ChristieBooks #StuartChristie #WorkingClassHistory

mosspiglet Apr 9

“To live as a worker, or die as a fighter” is one helluva motto 🔥

#WorkingClassHistory #AntiCapitalist

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116377097984647150

mosspiglet Apr 9

That’s the kind of representation one loves to see 🍉❤️‍🔥

#WorkingClassHistory #FreePalestine

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Peter Riley Apr 7

April 8, 1911
“Convict Leasing” Slavery By Another Name (13th Amendement) #Birmingham, #Alabama.
128 #coal mine workers: 113 of the dead were Black men convicted by Alabama courts of petty crimes & turned over to the mining company, which paid prison officials for the right to force the convicts to work WITHOUT PAY until they had served their sentences.
https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/

https://portside.org/2026-04-06/week-peoples-history-april-8-14-2026

#BannerMine #Capitalism #Exploitation #MineWorkers #Racism #Slavery #WorkingClassHistory

Slavery by Another Name | Episode 1

Slavery by Another Name explores the new forms of slavery after the Civil War.

Peter Riley Apr 7

Jane Latour’s oral history interviews with predominantly male building service employees, painters, carpenters, utility workers, maritime union members, as well as Teamsters in the construction industry.

https://newyorklaborhistory.org/resources/book-reviews/backroom-bargaining-racketeering-and-rebellion-in-new-york-citys-labor-unions/

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https://uniondemocracy.org/

Sisters in the Brotherhoods (2008)
https://www.talkinghistory.org/sisters/

#FromBelow #LabourMovement #NYC #Organize #RankandFile #Solidarity #Unions #WorkingClassHistory

Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions – New York Labor History Association

mosspiglet Apr 1

Whenever I read something about labor movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, I always think of Sole’s “Red Lung”

We used to ask: What timeline is this? This is the one where the good guys got their asses kicked and the worst people are running shit

#WorkingClassHistory #Bandcamp #Music

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Peter Riley Mar 25

1871 Paris Commune workers at France’s National Printing House took fonts once used by kings and emperors and repurposed them to print the demands of workers.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/paris-commune-printing-house-typography

Open Type Project
https://justseeds.org/project/justseeds-open-type-project/

#Fonts #JustSeeds #NoKings #ParisCommune #Typography #workingclasshistory

The Printing House of the Commune

During the Paris Commune, workers at France’s National Printing House took the same fonts once used by kings and emperors and repurposed them to print the demands of worker rule. 