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sparksinthenight · 2 days
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If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.
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politijohn · 2 months
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kropotkindersurprise · 4 months
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December 7, 2023 - Hundreds of UK union workers blockaded companies who sell weapons or parts for fighter jets that Israel uses for its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. Four factories were blockaded in Bournemouth, Lancashire, Brighton and Glasgow. Palestinian unions have asked for union workers across the world to use their power to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Dock workers have recenty heeded this call for solidarity by blocking Israeli weapons shipments in several countries, inculding South Africa, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, and Italy. [video]
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liberalsarecool · 6 months
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Shareholder economics is starving workers and exploiting labor.
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berniesrevolution · 1 year
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You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!
A history of company towns
by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore
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psikonauti · 11 months
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California’s first woman structural engineer, Ruth Gordon Schnapp, 1970s
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alatismeni-theitsa · 5 months
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"Women only started working very recently so a woman's place is the house-" shut up and feast your eyes at old photos of women from around the world doing physical labor only for them to return home and solely care for 5-10 children and the elderly parents of their husband.
Greek women represent:
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These photos show Greek women doing the type of physical labor they would perform more often than not. At the luckiest working conditions for rural women (aka most of the country) they would start working the fields as children and when they got older they would work the same fields with their own babies on their backs.
On the way home from the fields, sometimes the women would carry the wood and the mule would carry the man so he could rest.
Of course, we can talk about the manual labor that is rubbing cloth and metal for hours on end, chopping and carrying wood to light a fire for a large cauldron your size, and stirring it for hours.
But we can also talk about how it wasn't for them to break and carry rocks in baskets for the making of new roads. They would gather salt, olives, and grapes and carry them on large baskets filled to the brim. For salt they carried thirty kilos each trip, doing fifty trips each, stepping shoeless on the grains of salt.
Carrying water was also their job, often moving large barrels with all the water a house of 10 needed upon hills that horses and mules had trouble ascending.
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(more photos for salt mining and carrying here)
It's no hyperbole to say these women carried their incomes and households on their backs. "The good she-housekeeper is a slave and a lady" the old Greek saying goes. A "good woman" was a woman who could be strong and work at home and in the field, often described with the qualities of a mule. Men took their wives out in the fields so much that some who were a bit more educated had to make their husbands sign that they wouldn't ask them to work alongside them in the fields! (source in Greek)
Some of these photos are also from 1970. I'm missing a photo from Leukada showing women carrying baskets of the stones they broke, and I'll add it here when I find it.
Basically, women were out of the house forever. A woman who got to stay home and never perform any labor had some type of privilege (wealth, status etc). Same as the many privileged men around the world who didn't perform any labor at all.
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queerism1969 · 1 year
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lesbian-archives · 2 years
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Lesbian Construction Workers Protesting for Jobs, unknown date
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blackcat-brazil · 7 months
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sovietpostcards · 29 days
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"The Birth of the First Communist Brigade" by Aleksey Artsybushev (1959). Co-authored by A. Andreyeva, E. Binshtok, S. Ivashev-Musatov.
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nando161mando · 7 months
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Democrats And Republicans are Horrible
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politijohn · 4 months
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kropotkindersurprise · 8 months
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1941 - Disney animators went on strike after Walt Disney refused to let his workers unionize. The workers were angry about unfair policies on pay and benefits. On the picket line the animators lynched and guillotined an effigy of Walt Disney himself.
After four months Walt Disney caved to the demands and let the workers unionize, striking a deal which included the reinstatement of employees fired before the strike, equalization of pay, a clearer salary structure and a grievance procedure. [source] (this is a remake of a post that was deleted by @staff)
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liberalsarecool · 4 months
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Tax policy that encourages progressive ideas that people want. 32-hour work weeks!
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jstor · 6 months
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Labor unions 🤝 Cats 🤝 Tumblr users.
Here, we see a black cat with arched back–probably conceived by Industrial Workers of the World member Ralph Chaplin to indicate "direct action at the point of production" in the labor market.
Image credit: "Industrial Workers Of The World (I.W.W.) -- Beware Good Pay Or Bum Work -- I.W.W. One Big Union -- We Never Forget Sabotage." 1917. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
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