[act-ma] 3/22 Dump The Bosses Off Your Backs: Putting Class Struggle Back On The Agenda - Part 1 (Thurs)

Bill Bumpus wbumpus62 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 6 08:59:26 PST 2018





*Dump The Bosses Off Your Backs: Putting Class Struggle Back On The 
Agenda - Part 1
*

*Thursday, March 22 – 7:00 p.m.*

*Farnsworth House*

*90 South Street, Jamaica Plain*

**

  * How work and society were organized prior to the rise of capitalism
  * How the wage system was viewed by workers as it arose
  * How workers organized and fought to oppose it, particularly the
    insurrectionary general strikes of 1877, May Day 1886, Pullman,
    Homestead, Lawrence, etc.


*Part 2 - Thursday, March 29 – 7:00 p.m.*

  * The NLRA and the changes it wrought in the labor movement
  * The terrain since the Patco disaster of 1981
  * How we can recover the ability to fight back

Sponsored by Boston Labor Solidarity Committee (617) 702-2784




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