The Haymarket Affair

This BBC Radio 4 podcast episode of "In Our Time" discusses the Haymarket Affair of 1886, a pivotal moment in American labor history. Martha Clokie leads a discussion with Ruth Kinna, Christopher Phelps, and Gary Gerstle, exploring the tensions between workers and industry in 19th-century America, the events leading up to the Haymarket rally, the role of anarchism and its key figures like Albert Parsons and Johann Most, and the aftermath of the bombing and subsequent trial. The conversation covers the social and political context of the era, the motivations and ideologies of the anarchists, and the long-term legacy of the Haymarket Affair on labor relations and radical movements in the United States and internationally.