Hes currently writing a study of the textile strike of 1926. Is considered a period pioneered many of the labor protests that were to become born in the 1930s. The coworker strike was using the union to provide social and Relief Services to striking workers. This describes the tremendously violent means police used. We ask that you please join us for a light reception after the event. Lets welcome professor jacob zumoff prof. Zumoff thank you very much. I am very happy to be here, especially since quite a bit of my research is based on material here, including the town of pelham, new jersey. What i kind of want to do is talk a little about the strike talkf, and then i want to look at the question of why a strike is important and why it is worth looking at. As has been said in the inch of introduction, a lot of scholarly perception of the 1920s, the roaring 1920s, looks at it as a period of antilabor with tremendous attacks on the working class and the Labor Movement. And a relatively c
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OLDER PEOPLE
Extra useful years have been won for the swelling ranks of Canada s older people. But they can be years of tragedy unless the under-fifties make a fresh attempt to learn April 15 1954 JULIETTE K. ARTHUR
HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OLDER PEOPLE
Extra useful years have been won for the swelling ranks of Canada s older people. But they can be years of tragedy unless the under-fifties make a fresh attempt to learn
JULIETTE K. ARTHUR
IF YOU ARE under fifty you’re going to find yourself living in a state of constant civil war unless you realize that a new “breed” of older people is developing before your eyes. If you are among the one quarter of our population that’s over fifty, chances are you already know that the battle lines are drawn up.