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unusual facts about labor movement



Atterdag Wermelin

Atterdag Wermelin (1861 – 1904) was a Swedish revolutionary socialist, writer and poet, a pioneer of the labor movement, who, together with August Palm, introduced Marxism to Sweden in the 1880s.

Dovev

It was named after David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Dovev is an acronym of his initials), one of the leaders of the Labor Movement in the land of Israel, who was a mayor of Tel Aviv.

Patrick Crowley

A graduate of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Crowley is one of many who entered the Labor Movement during the mid-1990s when the AFL-CIO President John Sweeney issued a call to arms for a new generation of Union organizers to re-energize the American labor movement.


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Addie L. Wyatt

In 1972, she became the founding member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, which was formed to ensure that black workers could “share in the power of the labor movement at every level.”

Art of labor

However, work and workers, along with the labor movement, are often depicted as experiences of the American past: paintings of Joe Hill, photographs from the early 1900s of children working in factories, historic strikes and Rosie the Riveter.

Castle Village, Manhattan

The labor movement owned United Housing Foundation built tens of thousands of cooperative apartments using a similar layout.

Franklin Rosemont

His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biography of Joe Hill.

Gordon College of Education

Gordon College of Education was established in Haifa in 1953 merging the Teacher’s Seminary of the Labor Movement with the Teacher’s Seminary of the well-known Hebrew Reali School of Haifa.

Harry Van Arsdale, Jr.

Van Arsdale is also known for integrating minorities into the ranks of the labor movement in New York and for his friendships with powerful politicians, most notably with Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Wagner.

Ira Steward

Ira Steward (1831-1883) was a key figure in labor movement in the United States during the late 19th century, and a major advocate for an Eight-hour work day.

James P. Cannon

Therefore when the labor movement revived in the early 1930s the Communist league was well placed to put its ideas into action in the Twin Cities and through their influence in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters the union rapidly grew after an historic dispute in 1934.

Jonathan Tasini

While there, he was also involved in the powerful labor movement in Israel, Histadrut.

Lane Kirkland

Kirkland was born in Camden, South Carolina and rose over his career to head the 16-million-member American labor movement.

Lisa Fithian

In the early 1990s Lisa joined the labor movement, bringing her experience to the Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and Los Angeles and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit.

Nicholas Bonanno

Bonanno was also engaged in other labor movement activities, including the American Trade Union Council for Histadrut, Atlanta’s Community Relations Committee, and the United Italian American Labor Council.

Open-source unionism

Open-source unionism is a term coined by academics Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers to explain a possible new model for organizing workers that depended on the labor movement"taking its own historical lessons with diversified membership seriously and relying more heavily on the Internet in membership communication and servicing."

Philip S. Foner

Further charges were levied in May 2003, when labor historian Mel Dubofsky accused Foner of having "borrowed wholesale from my then unpublished dissertation" on the Industrial Workers of the World for use in Volume 4 of his History of the Labor Movement in the United States.

Staughton Lynd

With Mike Konopacki, Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below (1992)

Thrane

Marcus Thrane (1817–1890), Norwegian author, journalist, and the leader of the first Norwegian labor movement