Sadly, as people celebrate Labor Day this year, perhaps what's most notable is the historically low labor participation rate. There is a yawning gap between the jobs available and those with a desire to fill them.
A history of the Collar Laundry Union – the first female union in the United States – set up by Kate Mullany, Esther Keegan and others in Troy, New York in 1864.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37083
The USA: politics as a business and populism Submitted by martin on 4 April, 2021 - 11:22
Author: Friedrich Engels; Martin Thomas
From Socialist Organiser 194, 30 August 1984. Image above: Boss Tweed , the leader of the Democratic Party machine in New York City from the 1850s to the 1870s.
Two sorts of democracy
By Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels, writing in 1891, saw the USA as an example of the limitations of even the best capitalist democracy. At that time the USA did not even have a sizeable permanent state bureaucracy or standing army. Yet Engels saw a radical difference between the USA’s democracy and the workers’ democracy created in the Paris Commune, when the working class took power in Paris for two months in 1871.