On This Day in Working Class History

Mini-podcast about a strike by banana-loaders in Jamaica in 1935. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreo...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Saab Scania workers in Brazil under the military dictatorship in 1978. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of suppo...

Mini-podcast about the start of the insurrectionary Pullman strike in Chicago in 1894. Buy  Strike! by Jeremy Brecher here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/strike-jeremy-brecher See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date ind...

Mini-podcast about the Strike of the 100,000 in Nazi occupied Belgium in 1941. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listen...

Mini-podcast about a boycott by dockworkers in Kingston, Jamaica in 1935. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners o...

Mini-podcast about a nationwide strike by education workers in Peru in 1978. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listener...

Mini-podcast about the general strike by waiters and hotel workers in New York City in 1912. Learn more about the IWW in our podcast series about the union: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/ Learn more about the IWW in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/iww See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our St...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Black women tobacco stemmers in Virginia in 1937. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our list...

Mini-podcast about the massacre of striking workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the May strike for a maximum eight-hour working day in 1886. Learn more about this strike and its significance in episode 85 of the Working Class History podcast about May Day, available here for our patreon supporters. Learn the history of the May 1886 mass strike and the Haymarket affair, and other mass strikes i...

Mini-podcast about the massacre of students protesting against the bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war by National Guard troops in Ohio in 1970. Learn more about opposition to the Vietnam war in episodes 43-46 of the Working Class History podcast, here. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshisto...

Mini-podcast about the mass arrest of striking furriers in New York in 1926. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listener...

Mini-podcast about a strike by textile and garment workers in Eswatini in 2022. If you know the outcome of this dispute please email us to let us know on info@workingclasshistory.com See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https:...

Mini-podcast about the origins of May Day, International Workers' Day, in Chicago In 1886. The May Day history podcast with Upstream will be available for listening for our patreon supporters from 11:05 AM Eastern time here:  https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory Learn more about the history of May Day in this book in our online store: The Incomplete, True, Authentic, And Wonderful History Of Ma...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Deliveroo food app delivery drivers in Dubai in 2022. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our...

Mini-podcast about the strike by Asian workers at Supreme Quilting in Smethwick, UK, in 1982. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from...

Mini-podcast about the mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1789. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon . If yo...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Firestone rubber workers in Liberia in 2007. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners...

Mini-podcast about a strike by Amazon workers in Minnesota in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support fr...

Mini-podcast about the liberation of Milan and Genoa by the Italian resistance from Nazi occupation in 1945. Learn more about the Italian resistance in our podcast episodes 77-80: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ This is the best book about the resistance:  A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance   by Claudio Pavone Check out our Working Class History  me...

Mini-podcast about a strike by miners in Sabuk,  South Korea, in 1980. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on p...

Mini-podcast about rural Jamaicans in 1938 demanding a  minimum wage from British colonial authorities. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of sup...

Mini-podcast about a sit-in against segregation at a restaurant in Washington DC in 1944. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you,...

Mini-podcast about a nationwide strike by US coal miners in 1894. Learn in the book Strike! by Jeremy Brecher, available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/strike-jeremy-brecher See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date i...

Mini-podcast about a massacre of striking miners in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1920. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our liste...

Mini-podcast about a strike by textile workers in Valdagno,  Italy, in 1968. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app:  stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listene...