Auto worker massacre in Detroit; forget the name Battle of the Underpass
Trial of Bill Haywood and other Wobblies trial in Idaho (Colorado?)
John L. Lewis punches out Phillip Murray
attack by construction workers on anti-war protestors in NYC
mbs
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of JKSCHW at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 1:48 PM To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: The ten most important events in American industrial history
I have been asked by a documentary filmmaker who is doing a short (12 min.?) film on US industrial history for a pretty mainstream context what are the 10 absolutely must-include events, preferably with a bias towards stuff for which there exists film. Given the context and the buyer it cannot be all militant/labor radical stuff. The call is for stuff related to industry, not just radical labor.
The following list occurs to me. I am not trying at this point to limit it to 10. Please add, cut, rank. Thanks.
The discovery of the steam engine and/or cotton gin The completion of the transcontinental railroad/Chinese immigration to build it The formation of the great Trusts: Standard Oil, US Steel The Haymarket rally/8 hour day The ARU strike and/or the Homestead strike (a Penna event) Ford's Model T assembly line, Blacks move north to get factory jobs The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire/ILWGU The Lawrence Strike/IWW Something about the CIO--the UMW battles (very important in Penna), maybe the Ford Hunger Strikers? The signing of the NLRA Industry/labor in WWII: women in the industrial workforce, Rosie the Riveter The Treaty of Detroit The civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Something about the computer industry, what? IBM, Microsoft Something about deindustrialization, moving offshore, maybe US Steel gets out of the steel biz?, becomes USX The breaking of the PATCO strike Something about the service economy, what? ???
--jks