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It's a shame they don't teach in school just how hard unions and the workers of America had to fight to get the rights we think of as default today.
They went to literal war with their companies and the government multiple times. Look up the Coal Wars, look up the Haymarket affair, look up Matewan, look up Lucy Parsons. We have a long history of worker's rights, but since WW2 the ruling capitalists learned not to give the working class too many ideas to get too uppity.
We are well overdue for this kind of activity again.
There is a reason they don't teach it.
They don't want it to happen again.
They taught it in my (public) school. Sometimes I think a lot of people just aren't paying attention in class.
Or...in a country as big as the US there are many differing levels of education depending on where the school is located and how rich the zip code is.
Some people may have been taught this and others weren't.
Education is a privilege, and if you got a good one, you're lucky.
I was in AP US History so yes we talked about Pinkerton battles and all that, but it really falls on deaf ears for high schoolers. Once you become an adult and participate in the workforce, we should have to learn it again. America needs to celebrate its socialist and worker's rights cultures, but it doesn't by design.
I wasn't taught past WWII in public high school.
This was for an AP US History class, so the teacher was teaching to the test... And of course, whoever controls the test controls what's taught.
I find it "funny" that most of the world celebrates labor/workers day on May 1st to commemorate the Chicago protest to fight for 8-hour shifts and workers rights but in the US they don't even talk about it.
Labor Day in the US was chosen kinda arbitrarily to fall between independence Day and Thanksgiving Day
And that is deliberate
The history of that is pretty straightforward:
Edited to add: the only really confusing part about the whole thing is the names. One of the main guys involved was named "Spies", and another peripheral figure was named "Most". That makes it really confusing when you get phrases like "Most thought hat..." or "Spies believed..."
Does China celebrate or even acknowledge the Tiananmen Square Massacre? Same thing
Also how Redneck and Luddite became a slur through propaganda spread by the elites.
I hear so many excuses from Americans about how they can't protest their Nazi regime because they have bills to pay and it's hard and the government has guns and how it won't change anything anyway.
They have no idea how hard all of these people fought to give them the things they have today. They faced all the same problems and they succeeded.
Yeah I agree mostly, but also it is actually a different time in many ways. The same problem and solution are still there and the American public should do more, but there are some significant differences.
My public school taught us this
It was a very rich area though.
That is completely by design. If kids were taught what actually drives change then...
No the kids are given distractions and fed propaganda and brain rot.
Uh, wait, we didn't have much of those fights here but have better worker protections than all of America. How did this happen in central europe? Did we just at some point agree, it would be good? Or is it a swap-over from US?
Great question, and I'm also curious. Something worth researching.