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October 29, 2026

Today in 1929
What came to be known as Black Tuesday, the historic stock market crash, hit the New York Stock Exchange as over 16 million shares were dumped, wiping out billions in value and launching the Great Depression—an economic catastrophe that ultimately led to mass unemployment, sweeping New Deal labor reforms, and the legal codification of collective bargaining.

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There is No Labor Shortage, Only Labor Exploitation
Posted On: Jun 16, 2021
June 16, 2021 | COMMENTARY | […] American workers are at a critically important juncture at this moment. Corporate employers seem to be approaching a limit of how far they can push workers to accept poverty-level jobs. According to longtime labor organizer and senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies Bill Fletcher Jr., “This moment provides opportunities to raise wage demands, but it must be a moment where workers organize in order to sustain and pursue demands for improvements in their living and working conditions.”… Naked Capitalism
 
 
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