Although “Labor Day” is May 1…
My contribution to this celebration is inclined
toward the cerebral so, in honor of this day, here is a link to the latest
draft of my bibliography for “Workers, the World of Work, and Labor Law,”
available at the website for LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association.
It is also found on the page for “Teaching Resources.”
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”—Frederick Douglass (emphasis added)
Thanks, first, to Jim Chen, for formatting this (and all my other) compilation(s), and second, to Ryan Poe at LAWCHA for posting the bibliography.
Image: Jacob Burck, The Lord Provides. Lithograph (1934). See too, Harry L. Katz, ed., Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999.
“The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”—Frederick Douglass (emphasis added)
Thanks, first, to Jim Chen, for formatting this (and all my other) compilation(s), and second, to Ryan Poe at LAWCHA for posting the bibliography.
Image: Jacob Burck, The Lord Provides. Lithograph (1934). See too, Harry L. Katz, ed., Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999.
This poster is found here.
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