Happy Birthday, Geoff Eley!
Wir gratulieren unserem langjährigen Mitherausgeber zum 75. Geburtstag und erinnern aus diesem Anlass an unser Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 41/2006 "klasse", der Thementeil hg. von Marc Buggeln und #GeoffEley mit drei Beiträgen, die der Kategorie #Klasse in der indischen #Geschichtsschreibung, den #LatinAmericanStudies und der #Zeitgeschichte Skandinaviens nachgehen:
We're the George Lansbury Memorial Trust, set up in 2012 to commemorate the life of George Lansbury; the life-long campaigner for social justice.
George started life as a radical Liberal, became a socialist in the early 1890s & joined the Social Democratic Federation, Independent Labour Party, and then finally a Labour MP in 1922, leading the Party in the early 1930s.
📘 Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto edited the book "The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory".
With examples ranging across several centuries and different parts of the globe, it shows how wages are influenced by the specific organization and processes of work, conflict and power, social status and hierarchies between workers, etc.
@MikeDunnAuthor alright, the only thing I could find was a mention that the War Measures Act was used to outlaw “…many radical political and labour groups. The ban included the IWW…” due to their opposition to conscription.
I’d love to know more as #IWW continued to operate in Canada long after. And it appears that this ban crystallized support for #OneBigUnion syndicalism.
OK, so as a feminist and anticapitalist, I obviously have to be critical of the (toxic) genius Walt Disney.
Disney is well known as a union buster. The pays were very unequal and chaotic. Disney promised to pay the animators great bonuses after the release of Snow White, but instead of bonuses, he treated his employees (especially the unionised employees) with layoffs; he even took all ending credits for the movie himself.
It all lead to the great Disney Cartoonist Strike in 1941:
Although little is known about the (un)equal payment of women, it's reasonable to assume that the (mostly female read) cosmeticians, who meticulously applied makeup to each frame with Snow White, were probably less paid than most of the (mostly male) animators who did more or less some same work.
I've recently been cataloguing the papers of Frank Wise, a Labour MP, ILP member, and civil servant who worked as Director of the Soviet Union's Trade Office Centrosoyuz in the 1920s.
Amongst his papers is this photograph of an unidentified man (it isn't Frank!)
Pictured here from the LSE Library archives is Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh, meeting Peter Shore (Labour MP) at Heathrow Airport in 1973. They met on several occasions in due course, and Shore was very fond of him.
Our work is place-based and #Ireland is our home, so @mastodonie seemed the natural place for us on here
We seek to pay attention to the #marginalised voices that complicate and enrichen the story of this island. So we're keen to diversify our emerging #mastodon#community
We're grateful for any #reboost that helps connect us with others striving for an equitable society