Tag: us history

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 14 July 1877, the first mass strike in US history took place. The Great Railroad Strike aka the Great Upheaval saw general strikes stop all activity in a dozen major cities as workers took over the railways and took on police and federal troops. This is Jeremy Brecher’s account of these key events in American working class history: https://ift.tt/2a118Pi https://ift.tt/2uyBBqA