“Pirates, Witches, & Workers: 500-Years of Labor History”
“Pirates, Witches, & Workers: 500-Years of Labor History”
Kevin Van Meter will present a talk, “Of Pirates, Witches, and Workers: 500 Years of Labor History.” For 500-years, “the cause of labor is the hope of the world.” The talk begins in the conflict over the collection of firewood and then circulates through the witch-hunts, pirate utopias and slave resistance, corresponding societies and the communards of Paris, the 8-hour day movement and mine wars, great sit-down strikes and great migrations, wartime strikes and the Treaty of Detroit, neo-liberal responses to worker-student and civil rights movements, and the return of the labor movement today. With stories that reverberate throughout labor history, across the planet, and in our working lives.
Bangor Room-Memorial Union at University of Maine-Orono
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM on Mon, 29 Jan 2024
Event Supported By
Dr. Charles A. Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education at the University of Southern Maine
Bangor Room-Memorial Union at University of Maine-Orono
China Road
Orono,
Maine
00473
207-780-4380
scontrascenter@maine.edu