IL Labor History Soc

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The ILHS supports the preservation of Illinois labor history and works to share this history with researchers, students and the general public.

Chicago, IL Katılım Nisan 2011
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Sean Padraig McCarthy
Sean Padraig McCarthy@SeanMcCarthyCom·
Chicago was immensely important for the history of the global labor movement. Yet a random visitor here would never know it. Any given day you could book 100 Al Capone tours. There’s nothing on Haymarket. The Illinois Labor History Society occasionally puts on events but their office isn’t open to the public and nobody picks up the phone when you call them. Haymarket is the reason May 1st is an international labor holiday. It’s hardly an accident that it’s not observed where it began. Americans celebrate our Labor Day in September in order to erase our connection to this shared history. The point is to always give the impression that the labor movement is something foreign and not deeply American. Our unions were once militant, today they are mostly bureaucratic arms of the Democratic Party. Organizations of Americans workers who knew their history would represent a threat to the status quo. That history teaches that there are ways to do politics and exercise power besides just voting every four years.
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