Coolie.19C Chinese indentured labourer.

Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.

Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.

Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.

Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.

Fabian Society. 1883. English non-revolutionary socialist movement. Founded Labour Party. Shaw.

Factory Acts. England. 1802 Apprentices 12 hr day. 1819 Minimum age 9. 1833. Limited child labour to 8 hours and education required 1844 Women, children 10 hr max. 1842 No women/children in mines. 1920 Minimum age 14. US 1844 Women 12 hr max. 1874 Women/children 10 hr max.

Hardie, Keir. 1856-1915. British. Founded Scottish Labour Party 1888, Independent Labour Party 1893.

Haymarket Riot. 1886. Anarchist bomb kills 7 police at Chicago labour demonstration.

Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.

Heracles. Son of Zeus, noted for his twelve labours. =Hercules.

Independent Labour Party. 1893. Britain. Founded by Hardie....Labour Party 1906.

Industrial Workers of the World. IWW. 1905-25. Radical militant US labour union of unskilled workers.

Kagawa. 1888-1960. Japanese Christian pacifist evangelist writer/labour leader. National Anti-War League 1928.

Knights of Labor. 1869-1917. Secret (-1879) US anti-capitalist labour organization. Haymarket. AFL.

Krupp. 1587-1968. German family of arms manufacturers. Steel works 1812. Canon 1847. Used slave labour in WWII.

Labour Party. 1888 Scotland. 1890 NZ. 1891 Australia. 1900 Britain. 1930 Israel. Founded by unions, Fabians for democratic change towards socialism. First UK MPs elected 1906. First UK Labour government 1924.

Labourers, Statute. 1351. Parliament’s freezing of rising wages after plague leads to Peasants Revolt.

Lansbury, George. 1859-1940. British Labour MP. Women’s suffrage. Pacifist, opposed to WWI.

Liebknecht, Wilhelm. 1826-1900. German Socialist. Founded Social Democratic Labour Party, 1869.

MacDonald, Ramsay. 1866-1937. First British Labour Prime Minister 1924~35.

Marxism. Official dogma of Communism. Dialectical Materialism. “Perfect economic system will not require political state.” Marx. Engels. Value is based on labour. Maoism. Leninism.

Meir, Golda. 1898-1978. Israeli Labour Prime Minister 1969-74.

National Party. 1936-. New Zealand conservative anti-Labour party.

Palais de la Bourse. 1808-1907. First public stock exchange 1724 was in Mazarin Mansion.

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