Brandon Weber (1963-2020) wrote for the online news site Upworthy, where he wrote extensively on labor history and current events.
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Table of Contents Foreword Introduction 1. Joe Hill Labor’s Best-Known Songwriter Refused to be Buried in the State of Utah 1. Lowell, Massachusetts America’s Very First Union of Working Women 2. The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike African American Women with the Power to Call a General Strike—in 1881 3. Pullman Former Slaves Were Hired to Staff Pullman Box Cars Because They "Knew How to Be Servile" So They Formed a Union 4. Chicago The Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894: Chicago Was the Center of Both Struggles, and Things Got White-Hot 5. Eugene Debs The Carnegies and Rockefellers Tried to Silence Debs with Jail Time. That Didn’t Stop Him 6. Colorado’s Mining Frontier Cripple Creek, 1894, and Ludlow, 1913: Two Very Different Battles, and Both Were Shocking 7. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire One Hundred Twenty-Three Young Women Who Went to Work One Day in a New York Factory Never Came Home. It Changed Our Country Forever 8. Christmas Eve, 1913 Fifty-Nine Children Died on Christmas Eve, 1913, and It Broke Hearts Around the World 9. Christmas Truce These Soldiers Were Thought to Be Enemies, but They Played Soccer and Celebrated Christmas Eve,1914, Together 10. The Battle of Blair Mountain It Ended When Federal Troops Were Called Against Thirteen Thousand Miners It Was "Civil War in the Hills" 11. Tulsa, Oklahoma Ever Heard of "Black Wall Street"? There’s a Reason You Might Not Have 12. Bonus Army The Great Depression Left WWI Vets with the Short End of the Stick, They Weren’t Going to Sit Back and Take It 13. The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 It Began with Truck Drivers Who Wanted a Union. They Became Teamsters 14. Sitting Down, Striking Flint These Images Might Look Like Some Lazy Workers, Up to No Good But They’re Actually Heroes 15. The Battle of the Overpass A PR Disaster for Ford Motor Company that Kick-Started the UAW 16. "Rosie the Riveter" Remember the "Rosie the Riveter" Image Pretty Much Everybody Knows? (Ahem) 17. United Farmworkers That Time When 14 Million Americans Stopped Eating Grapes, Because Farmworkers Asked Them To 18. The Stonewall Rebellion A Civil Rights Battle for the Times 19. Wildcat In 1970, Postal Workers Suddenly Walked off the Job. The Nation, the Union, and Even President Nixon Were Caught by Surprise 20. Attica What Actually Happened at Attica in 1971 Is Still Largely Kept Hidden—but Clues and Facts Are Coming Out Even Now 21. The Watsonville, California, Cannery Strike This Is What Solidarity Looks Like 22. UPS Those Packages Won’t Move Themselves: Big Brown Versus the IBT 23. The Fight for $15 The Long Game, and Why It’s Part of Labor’s Future 24. Woody Guthrie Why Several Verses of "This Land Is Your Land" Are Usually Left Off When It’s Taught in School Index
Table of Contents Foreword Introduction 1. Joe Hill Labor’s Best-Known Songwriter Refused to be Buried in the State of Utah 1. Lowell, Massachusetts America’s Very First Union of Working Women 2. The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike African American Women with the Power to Call a General Strike—in 1881 3. Pullman Former Slaves Were Hired to Staff Pullman Box Cars Because They "Knew How to Be Servile" So They Formed a Union 4. Chicago The Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894: Chicago Was the Center of Both Struggles, and Things Got White-Hot 5. Eugene Debs The Carnegies and Rockefellers Tried to Silence Debs with Jail Time. That Didn’t Stop Him 6. Colorado’s Mining Frontier Cripple Creek, 1894, and Ludlow, 1913: Two Very Different Battles, and Both Were Shocking 7. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire One Hundred Twenty-Three Young Women Who Went to Work One Day in a New York Factory Never Came Home. It Changed Our Country Forever 8. Christmas Eve, 1913 Fifty-Nine Children Died on Christmas Eve, 1913, and It Broke Hearts Around the World 9. Christmas Truce These Soldiers Were Thought to Be Enemies, but They Played Soccer and Celebrated Christmas Eve,1914, Together 10. The Battle of Blair Mountain It Ended When Federal Troops Were Called Against Thirteen Thousand Miners It Was "Civil War in the Hills" 11. Tulsa, Oklahoma Ever Heard of "Black Wall Street"? There’s a Reason You Might Not Have 12. Bonus Army The Great Depression Left WWI Vets with the Short End of the Stick, They Weren’t Going to Sit Back and Take It 13. The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 It Began with Truck Drivers Who Wanted a Union. They Became Teamsters 14. Sitting Down, Striking Flint These Images Might Look Like Some Lazy Workers, Up to No Good But They’re Actually Heroes 15. The Battle of the Overpass A PR Disaster for Ford Motor Company that Kick-Started the UAW 16. "Rosie the Riveter" Remember the "Rosie the Riveter" Image Pretty Much Everybody Knows? (Ahem) 17. United Farmworkers That Time When 14 Million Americans Stopped Eating Grapes, Because Farmworkers Asked Them To 18. The Stonewall Rebellion A Civil Rights Battle for the Times 19. Wildcat In 1970, Postal Workers Suddenly Walked off the Job. The Nation, the Union, and Even President Nixon Were Caught by Surprise 20. Attica What Actually Happened at Attica in 1971 Is Still Largely Kept Hidden—but Clues and Facts Are Coming Out Even Now 21. The Watsonville, California, Cannery Strike This Is What Solidarity Looks Like 22. UPS Those Packages Won’t Move Themselves: Big Brown Versus the IBT 23. The Fight for $15 The Long Game, and Why It’s Part of Labor’s Future 24. Woody Guthrie Why Several Verses of "This Land Is Your Land" Are Usually Left Off When It’s Taught in School Index
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