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Strike! Working Class Struggle in Little Falls, NY w/ Historian James Cheney (G&R 513)

Podcast: Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Green and Red

Opublikowano: 2026-07-08

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. The Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913 was a pivotal but long-neglected event in American labor history. The story includes the dramatic struggle of immigrant women against powerful mill owners, brutal police repression, and a hostile press as they fought for their dignity and survival. The history chronicles how a walkout over reduced wages grew into a major labor conflict, drawing in powerful allies lik...