Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Eight Hours for What We Will
Nelson Lichtenstein in Slate discusses the origins of May Day.
Labels:
economic history,
labor,
political history,
race and ethnicity
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"History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants." --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 1, 1787
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