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Hace 1 día · For example, press freedom, the right to organize trade unions and to strike, and electoral competition with broad suffrage were established well before the larger of these territories achieved independence in the 1960s. Haiti also underwent a brief experiment with more open, somewhat reformist politics in the late 1940s.
Hace 4 días · As Starmer becomes Labour’s seventh prime minister, he should heed his predecessors’ challenges – and their attempts to overcome them. Three stand out. 1. Strike a balance between grand ...
Hace 4 días · They see what we see: the Sanders electoral insurgency, the 2020 uprisings, the mass protests for Gaza, the strike waves, the growing popularity of unions and socialism. And this makes the ruling elites very worried. If we want to avoid a similar fate, understanding the real history of the purges of the late 1940s and 1950s deserves revisiting.
Hace 5 días · Italy - Economic Stagnation, Labour Militancy, 1960s-70s: After 1963, when the Socialist Party entered government, an increasing number of political appointments were made in the firms and agencies of the public sector, and trade unions became more powerful.
Hace 2 días · United States - Haymarket Riot, Labor Unrest, Anarchism: The most serious blow to the unions came from a tragic occurrence with which they were only indirectly associated. One of the strikes called for May Day in 1886 was against the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago.
Hace 5 días · As a result of such attacks on organized labor, membership in unions actually dropped in 1905 and remained stagnant for the next five years. Yet the booming economy before and during World War I increased labor’s power: the AFL’s membership increased by approximately 800,000 between 1910 and 1917, and organized labor as a whole grew to 4 million by 1920. 10 The membership also became ...
Hace 5 días · A major anti-Fascist protest strike, called by the Socialist-led Confederation of Labour in August 1922, quickly collapsed, strengthening Mussolini’s bargaining position even further. Fascists used the opportunity to inflict further damage on the left and union institutions, and the offices of L’Avanti! were again attacked and razed.
