Region 5 Lunch & Learn Series, Part 1

Description: Minnesota's modern labor movement took shape over several decades (1880s-1930s) in which workers confronted (a) the power of corporate employers; (b) the transformation of work and the workplace from a site for skilled labor to sites which mixed skilled and unskilled labor; (c) a working class which mixed native born and immigrant workers, White workers and workers of color; (d) a political terrain in which workers fought to find a voice.  We will explore these developments by visiting such topics as -- the Great Northern RR workers' strike of 1894; the Mesabi iron miners' strike of 1917; the formation of the Farmer-Labor Party in 1924 and its success in the 1930s.

Presented by: Peter Rachleff