Joe Hill and His World: Labour, Capital and Resistance (Not a Love Story)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar

Description

Lecture and Presentation on the life and times of immigrant IWW organiser Joe Hill, discussing global migration; the rapid expansion of American capitalism in the late 19thc; the conquest of the American West; exploitation and ‘Frontier Justice’; the place of the IWW in the American labour movement, the culture of labour balladeers.
Period19 Nov 2015
Event titleMarkets Centenary Lecture, 1915-215
Event typeExhibition
LocationBelfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionLocal

Keywords

  • Labour History
  • American West
  • US History
  • Class Conflict
  • Working-Class Culture
  • Capitalism

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