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Labor History in 2:00

Labor History in 2:00

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  • October 19 - In the Streets and at the Shareholder Meetings

    October 19 - In the Streets and at the Shareholder Meetings
    Oct 19 2025

    On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. In what the Chicago Sun Times called it the “biggest labor management war of the last two decades.” The battle for union recognition at ten J.P. Stevens’s textile plants ended in victory.

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    2 Min.
  • October 18 - Walking in Their Shoes

    October 18 - Walking in Their Shoes
    Oct 18 2025

    On this day in Labor History, and we are going all the way back to 1648. More than a hundred years before the American Revolution, an early trade organization was founded in the Colony of Massachusetts. They called themselves the “Company of Shoemakers.”

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    2 Min.
  • October 17 - The Making of a Monopoly

    October 17 - The Making of a Monopoly
    Oct 17 2025

    On this day in Labor History, the year was 1877. That was the day that John D. Rockefeller, and his company Standard Oil struck a deal with the Pennsylvania Railroad that would cement his monopoly on the nation’s oil refineries. In the early 1870s Rockefeller was building his oil empire out from its center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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    2 Min.
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