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LABOR HERITAGE OCT 2024 CALENDAR
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What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? (Book Event)
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM
Busboys & Poets, 450 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
The Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation, and Busboys and Poets invites you to: A Conversation between Bill Fletcher Jr. and Dana Frank about Frank's new book: "What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times."
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Working the Tip Jar: Patronage and Culture in Nashville’s Honky-Tonks (Talk)
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:00 AM until 1:15 PM
Green Room, MSU Library, 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824 (also available online)
Patronage and Culture in the Control of Service Workers on Nashville’s Honky-Tonks: How does the entertainment engine of downtown Nashville pattern tip work? Further, how do musicians working for tips in Nashville’s entertainment industry navigate the risky experience of tip work? Drawing on two years of multi-organizational ethnography in Nashville’s honky-tonk clubs, this presentation by Adam Schoenbachler, Vanderbilt University Sociology Department, follows the lives of four honky-tonk musicians at different career stages through a neo-feudal employment landscape.
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North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) (Conference)
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 10:00 AM until Saturday, October 12, 2024, 4:00 PM
Walter P. Reuther Library on Cass Avenue (Thursday) or in the Student Center on campus (Friday and Saturday) Detroit, MI
The North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) has been on hiatus since the 2020 pandemic, but we are coming back this year amid a presidential election campaign to consider questions about the relationship between work and democracy.
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Unrest (Film)
Friday, October 11, 2024, 7:30 PM until 9:03 PM
Dryden Theatre, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Unrest, the balance wheel of a mechanical timepiece as well as political action, is the apt title for this film’s connection of anarchism and watchmaking in late 19th-century Switzerland. It dramatizes young Pyotr Kropotkin’s 1872 visit to Saint-Imier, the center of Swiss watchmaking and site of the anti-authoritarian congress of anarchists—a visit he credits to his full turn to anarchism. While the small factory owners apply crude time and motion tests at the assumed Longines watch company, the recent rise of the telegraph, trains and photography enable the workers to connect with and support anarchists around the world.
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The Road to Matewan (Book reading)
Saturday, October 12, 2024, 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, 401 Mate St (Community Center on the 2nd floor), Matewan, WV 25678
In The Road to Matewan, William Pancoast writes an ode to the land of Appalachia while giving a voice to its marginalized people. The novel tells the story of Thomas Greene, a man confronted with the destructive forces of modernization and industrialization, and the choices he must make to be free. Reading by the author; copies of The Road to Matewan will be available for purchase at the event.
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The Cradle Will Rock (Folk opera)
Saturday, October 12 (7:30pm) & Sunday, October 13 (2:30pm)
Cecile Goldman Theater DCJCC, 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC
NOTE: Oct 6-13 are at the DCJCC; Oct 18-20 are at the Baltimore Theatre Project.
This piece became a thundering work of American history when governments and unions alike tried to ban its legendary first performance. Artists defied those orders to bring this searing work that celebrates the labor movement to life from the seats of a packed theater while the work’s composer and librettist Marc Blitzstein sat alone at the piano onstage. Originally directed by Orson Welles and dedicated to Kurt Weill, this imaginative new version honors the story of this rarely heard classic’s origin with new energy, humor, melody, and a thirst for justice. The production features a cast of the area’s best young vocalists, led by the newly named Artistic Director of DC’s own Theatre Alliance, Shanara Gabrielle, and IN Series Head of Music Emily Batlzer (“The Promised End”). Tickets: $35-72
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Miners Day 2024 (Labor history event)
Sunday, October 13, 2024, 12:00 PM until 5:00 PM
Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive, Illinois
Miner's Day celebrates the hard work and sacrifices of miners who have played a crucial role in the development of industries and communities worldwide. On its 125th anniversary, the day commemorates the achievements and contributions of these brave individuals, while also honoring the legacy of mining communities. Keynote speaker: Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America. Performance by Mother Jones re-enactor Loretta Williams and General Bradley re-enactor Dale Hawkins, Music by Wildflower Conspiracy and Casting Runes. Miners lunch provided to guests at the cemetery.
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DC Labor Chorus helps "Promote the Vote" (Music)
Sunday, October 13, 2024, 3:45 PM until 4:15 PM
Olney Theater, 2001 Olney Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD
Support the Chorus as they sing their own version of "get out the vote" songs.
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NOTE: There are dozens of labor arts events across the country on our updated website; check them out, let us know what you think, and send details on any events we should know about to info@laborheritage.org
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Faces from an American Dream
Through Saturday, December 28, 2024, 4:00 PM
American Labor Museum, 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, NJ 07508
Photography exhibit by Martin Desht documenting American post-industrialism at the end of the twentieth century. It depicts the economic transition from industrial manufacturing to service and information work and how this rapid social change re-defined the American industrial city and its impact on skilled and unskilled workers in search of the American Dream.
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Today’s Labor History
Joe Hill, labor leader and songwriter, born in Gavle, Sweden – 1879
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Chris talks with labor historian Dana Frank; her new book is What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times. The book takes a new look at working-class activism during the 1930s from the perspective of our own time, examining mutual aid, and eviction protests, the expulsion of a million Mexicans, a sit-down strike by African American women working as wet-nurses, and a white supremacist fascist organization in Ohio known as the Black Legion.
Dana will be in conversation with Bill Fletcher Jr. this Tuesday, October 7, at the K Street Busboys and Poets; click here for details.
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
Please CLICK HERE NOW to pledge your financial support to our 2024 program, which includes our annual Solidarity Forever Award, the Great Labor Arts Exchange, the DC Labor FilmFest and much more (check out our website for details!).
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Labor History Calendar October 
