Bayonets, boycotts, and burgers: American labor history in pictures
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Laura Clawson
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/01/1325005/-Bayonets-boycotts-and-burgers-American-labor-history-in-pictures#
This 1877 cover of Harper's Weekly shows the blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the Great Railroad Strike.
Militiamen with fixed bayonets face off with strikers carrying American flags in the Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912.
Garment workers staged the "Uprising of the 20,000" in New York City in 1909-1910. Just a year later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire highlighted the conditions they faced.
The Memphis sanitation workers strike is most remembered for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., but we cannot separate it from the history of labor struggle.
Los Angeles McDonald's workers strike in 2013.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United Farm Workers organized boycotts of agricultural products like lettuce and grapes. Farm workers continue to face low wages, terrible working conditions, and abuse on the job.
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To my dad who was a Union President, thank you for showing and telling us what good unions do and how they helped everyone
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