All posts tagged "labor history"
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7.6KMassachusettsA. Philip Randolph Leads Sleeping Car Porters Out of Slavery
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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14.7Kboston7 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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34.6KBusiness and LaborThe Working Man’s Friend Who Busted the Hartford Newsies Strike
The New York-based strike, immortalized in the Disney film Newsies, succeeded in 1899. The Hartford newsies strike 10 years later did not...
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10.6K2New England PlacesSix Places Workers Were Killed in New England
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
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7.7KBusiness and LaborMaine Peonage Law Sent Men to Jail for Quitting Their Jobs
In 1907, lumber barons persuaded politicians to pass the Maine peonage law to keep lumberjacks on the job. If they quit work,...
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10.0K7MassachusettsA 27-year-old Woman Died in a 1913 Ipswich Mill Strike; She Never Did Get Justice
On June 10, 1913 a long simmering Ipswich mill strike was grinding onward. For weeks seven hundred mostly Greek workers at the...
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