All posts tagged "manufacturing"
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11.5K11Business and LaborThe Winnipesaukee Water War and the 1859 Fight for NH Property Rights
On Sept 28, 1859, James Worster led 50 angry farmers, mill operators, loggers and laborers in a vain effort to destroy a...
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10.3K9Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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7.3K6Business and LaborGirl Power: The 1933 New Haven Garment Workers Strike
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women into the middle...
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12.4K2Business and LaborHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation, which once employed 21,000 people, got started in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922. It happened when a...
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9.2K11ConnecticutMethodists vs. Millgirls in the Murder Trial of the Century (Pt. 1)
Everyone agrees on one thing about the Methodists and the mill girl: On December 21, 1832, Sarah Cornell was found dead. A...
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