Working Class History with Paul Gilmore | Empowerment Institute

Описание: The Central Labor Council, in collaboration with the Fresno City College Social Justice Center, hosted a workshop featuring Fresno City College history professor Paul Gilmore. The workshop explored the struggles, successes, and pivotal moments that have shaped workers’ rights and advocacy today.

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Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:09:56 Working Class History
00:17:23 What is Class? · Class Invisibility
01:01:51 US Wealth Ownership
01:10:40 Wealth Distribution Today
01:18:10 Historical Amnesia · Haymarket Affair
01:33:07 8 Hour Day
01:35:30 Homestead Strike
01:40:54 Industrial Unionism
02:01:44 Labor's Magna Carter
02:06:00 Outro

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About the Speaker:
Paul Gilmore has taught history at Fresno City College for over twenty years. He teaches classes in the History of Business, Labor, and Technology, the History of the American Civil Rights Movement, the History of California, US History and History of the Modern World. He has also taught other specialty courses and the Global Issues class for the Global Studies Program. Professor Gilmore has always been most interested in the history of American social movements – labor, civil rights, the women’s movement – and how they have challenged power and changed our world.

Education:
Paul received his B.A. in History at Furman University, and then an M.A. in History at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Finally, he earned an M.S. in the History of Technology at Georgia Tech, where he studied, among other things, the history of grocery store workers and supermarkets.