Today In Labor History April 9, 1834: A silk workers began an insurrection in Lyon, France. This was the second of three Canut revolts. (The first is depicted in the feature image, above) Weaving craftsmen were called canuts. The canuts owned their own looms and employed apprentices. In February, the owners imposed a wage reduction. […]
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1800s Today In Labor History April 8, 1864: The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, banning chattel slavery. However, it permitted a continuation of wage slavery and the forced labor of convicts without pay. April 8, 1896: Songwriter Yip Harburg was born on this day. Harburg was known for the social commentaries of his
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Early 1800s Today In Labor History April 7, 1803: French-Peruvian feminist and writer, Flora Tristan, was born on this day. She was friends with Charles Fourier, another Utopian Socialist of the era. And one of her last writings was The Workers’ Union, a Utopian Socialist tract. April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture, died on
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1700s Today in Labor History April 6, 1712: A Slave revolt began in New York City. It started because the authorities executed twenty-one blacks for killing nine whites. Conditions were ideal for a revolt. Black slaves and freemen worked in close proximity, making communication and planning easier. After the revolt, they jailed 70 black men.
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Today In Labor History April 5, 1871: During the Paris Commune, the government captured Élisée Reclus on this day. Later, they banished him from France for life. Reclus was a geographer, writer and anarchist. He influenced evolutionary biologist, Alfred Wallace, as well as many authors, and the famous anarchist, Peter Kropotkin. In 1894, he became
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