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The Children of Ludlow: Their Struggle is Our Struggle

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  • McGettigan, Timothy

    (Colorado State University -Pueblo)

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Ever since that dark day, April 20, 1914, what has since been known as the Ludlow Massacre galvanized the US labor movement. Once properly unified, trade unions became strong enough to leverage significant economic concessions from the Captains of Industry. Those economic concessions proved sufficient to buoy the aspirations of America’s middle class throughout much of the 20th century. More than a century after the Ludlow Massacre, post-industrialist fat cats continue their relentless efforts to undermine the working class. If America’s middle class is going to survive this never ending onslaught, then hard-pressed 21st century workers will need to rekindle the spirit of the Ludlow strikers whose sacrifices gave working stiffs a shot at the American Dream.

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  • McGettigan, Timothy, 2016. "The Children of Ludlow: Their Struggle is Our Struggle," OSF Preprints qhzqe, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:qhzqe
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qhzqe
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