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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"When it shall be said in any country in the world that my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness—when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government." --Thomas Paine, 1791
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