workingclasshistory:

On this day, 20 March 1954, Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya died. A lifelong fighter against British colonialism, he moved from nationalism to Bolshevism and finally anarchism. Despite his involvement in the independence struggle, the government ignored his passing and only one journal reported it, noting: “Now that India has obtained independence, the old combatant for liberty has given up his last gasp in the most complete poverty.” This is our short biography of him: https://ift.tt/2Fo5CQG https://ift.tt/2HLkH07

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 20 March 1856, engineer Frederick Taylor was born in Philadelphia. He was the founder of “Scientific Management,” often known as Taylorism, which was a scheme to improve workers’ efficiency and break up workers’ solidarity. It was adopted widely both in the West and by Lenin, Trotsky and later Stalin in the Soviet Union. This is a great article about the introduction of Taylorist practices to American firms, and how radical workers responded: https://ift.tt/1zA2mEs https://ift.tt/2TX76cM

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Newly formed doll heads drying at a doll factory. c.1947

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD.