Ante-bellum Labor: Violence, Strike, and Communal Arbitration

Grimsted, David

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“…94 It is difficult to locate a reliable accounting of the violence against labor during Goldman's time; while labor historians have provided accounts of the more infamous killings such as Homestead and Ludlow, no one, it seems, has done for murdered workers the meticulous, brutal arithmetic that Ida B. Wells, the Tuskegee Institute, and others have performed to document the lynching of African Americans.…”

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“…While there were many more acts of "propaganda of the deed" in Europe than in the U.S., America's half-century of intense violence against labor gave the U.S. "the world's deadliest industrial history." 94 It is difficult to locate a reliable accounting of the violence against labor during Goldman's time; while labor historians have provided accounts of the more infamous killings such as Homestead and Ludlow, no one, it seems, has done for murdered workers the meticulous, brutal arithmetic that Ida B. Wells, the Tuskegee Institute, and others have performed to document the lynching of African Americans.…”

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Discourses of Danger

Ferguson

2008

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Government, media, and medical accounts of Emma Goldman converged to create her public presence in the U.S. as a “dangerous individual.” The prevailing discourses constituted Goldman as violent, utilizing her alleged menace to distract attention from far more egregious violence against labor by state and corporate forces. Goldman responded by denying, confronting, and redirecting the alarmed gaze toward greater risks left underarticulated in hegemonic accounts. Goldman's bold confrontations with authorities constituted a kind of anarchist parrhesia, fearless speech, a relentless truth-telling practice that risked her own security in pursuit of her “beautiful ideal.” The labor of remembering America's history of class violence hones our attention to the complex discursive processes by which some historical facts come to count in prevailing narratives, while others fade into obscurity.

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Irish Canallers and the Second Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley

Regan¹

2022

Agricultural History

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This article explores the lower Mississippi valley's antebellum history to uncover the role of Irish immigrant laborers in the riverine economy of the Cotton Kingdom. In particular, this article examines the experience of Irish laborers as canallers and ditchers on plantations and internal improvement projects, which drew thousands of Irish immigrants into the interior of the Mississippi valley in the decades before the American Civil War. Scholars will better understand the experience of these Irish laborers through the lens of “the second slavery,” which helps point the way to a broader comprehension of the employment of free labor in the antebellum South. This article demonstrates that Irish immigrants were a manifestation of the labor demands of the second slavery, and through their toil, they helped ensure that US cotton reached the global market.

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Ante-bellum Labor: Violence, Strike, and Communal Arbitration

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