How Workers Made May Day Theirs

http://jacobinmag.com/2017/05/the-birth-of-a-holiday/
Date Written:  2017-05-01
Publisher:  Jacobin
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24348

The extraordinary thing about the evolution of this institution is that it was unintended and unplanned. To this extent it was not so much an ‘invented tradition’ as a suddenly erupting one.