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Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
"The Traffic in Women" is an essay by anarchist writer Emma Goldman in 1910. It has been circulated in a variety of publications. Namely, Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), published by Mother Earth, [notes 1] as well as the leading essay of The Traffic in Women, and Other Essays on Feminism (1971).
Emma Goldman denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves". [20] The view that working for wages is akin to slavery dates back to the ancient world. [21] In ancient Rome, Cicero wrote that "the very wage [wage labourers] receive is a pledge of their slavery". [11]
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) is a collection of essays written by Emma Goldman, first published by Mother Earth Publishing Association.The essays outline Goldman's anarchist views on a number of subjects, most notably the oppression of women and perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism, but also prisons, political violence, sexuality, religion, nationalism and art theory.
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years is a collection of original documents pertaining to anarchist Emma Goldman's time spent in the United States. . Prepared by Candace Falk, founding director of the Emma Goldman Research Project at the University of California, Berkeley, the documents cover Goldman's career from her 1890 arrival in the United States through her 1919 ...
The term "wage slavery" has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops) [15] and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job ...
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery in the context of a critique of societal property not intended for active personal use, [11] Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines while later Emma Goldman famously denounced wage ...
Emma Goldman organized a Free Speech League to contest the deportation. She recruited Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters to defend him. [16] After Goldman organized a meeting at Cooper Union of those opposing the deportation, a New York Times editorial argued in favor of the Act and the deportation of Turner. It referred to the people at the ...