The twelve-day New York City transit strike in January 1966 is considered the first major citywide shutdown of subways and buses. About 33,000 workers, led by the Transport Workers Union, paralyzed the city on Mayor John Lindsay‘s first day in office.
This strike led to the creation of the still controversial 1967 Taylor Law (Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act), legislation that bars most New York State public employees from striking, or even expressing support for a strike, including state workers, teachers, and municipal employees. [Read more…] about 7 Cents An Hour: The 1950 Utica Bus Strike
Social Realism as a movement in art and fiction emerged between the World Wars in response to the political and socio-economic turmoil of the period. To create in the 1930s, both in Europe and the United States, meant making an ideological choice.
There were only 14 horses at 
In 1693, Leicestershire-born immigrant William Bradford was appointed public printer for New York. Living in Pearl Street, Manhattan, he published from his offices in Hanover Square the first book with a New York imprint, entitled New-England’s Spirit of Persecution Transmitted to Pennsylvania by Quaker author George Keith.
There were riots in the streets of 
A nonprofit employer is not necessarily a better boss than a profit-making one.
If the thought of W.C. Fields and Ethel Barrymore walking a picket line strikes you as incongruous, it’s time to brush up on some labor history. On the Long Island History Project Podcast, Caroline Propersi-Grossman, a labor historian and PhD candidate at Stony Brook University, relates the story of the 1919 Actors’ Equity Strike and how it fits into labor history.