Happy Labor Day. In this episode Alyssa tells Molly McAleer about the Haymarket Affair and the origin of the 8-hour work day.
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Show Notes:
- Illinois Labor History Society: The Haymarket Affair Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Haymarket and May Day
- WTTW: HAYMARKET AFFAIR HANGINGS
- Britannica: Haymarket Affair
- WCCO: Good Question: How did we get the 8-hour work day?
- Chicago Cop: HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
- Chicago Sun-Times: Haymarket blast shook the world – 100 years later, Chicago remembered
- Chicago Reader: Haymarket Revisited
- Chicago Tribune: HAYMARKET RIOT REMEMBERED
- PBS: The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident
- Second City Sinners
- Chicago Tribune: STILL-HEARD VOICES: HAYMARKET MONUMENT GETS LANDMARK STATUS
- CPD: Haymarket Statue Rededication Ceremony at Police Headquarters
- The Haymarket Memorial
- Chicago Tribune: SITE OF HAYMARKET RIOT PROPOSED FOR LABOR PARK
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