Status Updates From The History of the Haymarke...

Johann Most, a charismatic German-speaking anarcho-whatever comes to America to go on a German speaking tour and invigorates the movement.

Man, what a downer. Organization going badly for these social revolutionaries.

An introduction to Marxism in the American late 19th century -- mostly foreigners, mostly Germans.

Lots of newspaper clips and statistics. The NYT says that unions are unAmerican because "tyrannical", lots of unions and workers get charged with conspiracy, and the right-to-work argument is strong.

So far a numbers-rich introduction to labor in the American late 19th century.

"This event is only indirectly related but I'm going to write 2 chapters about it!"

"This is a great example of 'old labor history'," I say to myself as if I hadn't just learned what that means less than 3 weeks ago. #impostersyndrome