Labor History Today

The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike

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Labor historian Peter Rachleff on how a Midwest strike helped shape national labor law plus a preview of his talk on the 1886 takeover of the Richmond (VA) City Council by black and white union activists.  


On this week’s Labor History in Two: the birth of the original Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

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Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

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