All posts tagged "labor history"
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5.9KArts and LeisureThe Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
In 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland,...
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5.1KBusiness and LaborThe Working Girls of Boston: Immoral Floozies or Honest Toilers?
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
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11.5KMassachusettsA. Philip Randolph Heads the 1963 March on Washington
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
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22.9Kboston7 Fun Facts About the Boston Irish
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
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46.3KBusiness and LaborThe Working Man’s Friend Who Busted the Hartford Newsies Strike
The New York-based newsies strike, immortalized in the Disney film of the same name, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10...
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12.5KBusiness and LaborAlfred Winslow Jones, The Unlikely Inventor of the Hedge Fund
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
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