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October 01, 2026

Today in 1831
 Baltimore seamstresses went on strike. While not a epoch-changing event in American labor history, it is a good moment to get into the everyday drudgery and struggles of urban antebellum white women workers, issues that are a lot more important in the lives of the working-class than brief revolutionary moments that capture the romantic attention of modern radicals. That’s particularly true to understand white women’s labor, a group of workers often left out of our popular discussions of labor history. Learn more. 

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How Unionized Voters Could Decide the Election
Posted On: Jul 30, 2024
July 30, 2024 | VOTE2024 | Over the past two national election cycles, Democrats regained some edge with union voters, finds an analysis from the progressive Center for American Progress Action Fund shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: With the union vote hotly contested expect to see more explicitly pro-worker policy ideas — or at least sloganeering — coming from both sides of the aisle. That's part of the impetus behind the Biden administration's pro-labor rhetoric and policy and is also why Teamsters president Sean O'Brien spoke to the Republican National Convention — an unprecedented move. Axios
 
 
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