All posts tagged "labor"
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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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10.4K1Business and LaborWhen Poor Apprentice Laborers Were 2 Years Old
In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...
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7.2KConnecticutBridgeport Elects a Socialist Mayor Again and Again and Again
Bridgeport, Conn., elected a socialist mayor for 24 years. Jasper McLevy was beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
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17.0K1MassachusettsSeven Fascinating Facts About Frederick Douglass
He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...
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11.9K5ConnecticutThe Rise and Fall of the Connecticut Borough
For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
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11.2K2MassachusettsWhen Massachusetts Was a Paradise for Tramps
So many tramps rode the rails into Massachusetts after the Civil War that in 1899 a group of charity administrators published a...
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