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163 matches to Labour Party
Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.
Hardie, Keir. 1856-1915. British. Founded Scottish Labour Party 1888, Independent Labour Party 1893.
Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.
Independent Labour Party. 1893. Britain. Founded by Hardie....Labour Party 1906.
Labour Party. 1888 Scotland. 1890 NZ. 1891 Australia. 1900 Britain. 1930 Israel. Founded by unions, Fabians for democratic change towards socialism. First UK MPs elected 1906. First UK Labour government 1924.
Liebknecht, Wilhelm. 1826-1900. German Socialist. Founded Social Democratic Labour Party, 1869.
Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.
AFL-CIO. American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL 1886. CIO 1935. Merged, 1955. US labour union federation.
Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.
Ben Gurion, David. 1886-1973. Polish/Israeli Labour pol. First Prime Minister of Israel, 1948~63. “Architect of Israel”.
Bevin, Ernest. 1881-1951. British labour leader, statesman. TUC. Initiated Colombo Plan.
Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.
Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.
Buchenwald. 1937-45. Nazi concentration camp. Medical research, slave labour. 52,500 dead.
Callaghan, James. 1912-. British Labour Prime Minister 1976-9.
Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.
Coolie.19C Chinese indentured labourer.
Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.
Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.
Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.
Fabian Society. 1883. English non-revolutionary socialist movement. Founded Labour Party. Shaw.
Factory Acts. England. 1802 Apprentices 12 hr day. 1819 Minimum age 9. 1833. Limited child labour to 8 hours and education required 1844 Women, children 10 hr max. 1842 No women/children in mines. 1920 Minimum age 14. US 1844 Women 12 hr max. 1874 Women/children 10 hr max.
Haymarket Riot. 1886. Anarchist bomb kills 7 police at Chicago labour demonstration.
Heracles. Son of Zeus, noted for his twelve labours. =Hercules.
Industrial Workers of the World. IWW. 1905-25. Radical militant US labour union of unskilled workers.