All posts tagged "mill girls"
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8.9K2Business and LaborGirl Power: The 1824 Factory Strike in America
America’s first factory strike happened just 30 years after America’s first successful textile mill started churning out cotton cloth in Pawtucket, R.I....
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7.4K10ConnecticutSix Amazing Indian Women From New England
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
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5.2KNew HampshireThe Dover Mill Girls Walk Out in America’s 1st Women’s Strike
When Dover mill girls went on strike against the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., they said their bosses secretly ‘abused and insulted’ them by calling...
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8.9K4bostonThe Woman Suffrage Cook Book Prints Recipes for Subversion
Putting together the first woman suffrage cook book in 1886 must have been a lot like herding cats for Hattie A. Burr...
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13.5K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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9.9K7Business and LaborThe Bates Bedspread of Maine, America’s Favorite Counterpane
The Bates Bedspread, once found in nearly every household, has links to presidents, First Ladies, a famous midwife and countless women who...
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11.3KNew HampshireDr. Calvin Cutter and the New Hampshire Baptists who ‘Murdered’ his Wife
In 1835, the Baptists in Nashua, N.H., grew in numbers so fast they began planning a second church in the city. The...
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11.9K14Business and LaborFlashback Photo: The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
During the bitterly cold January of 1912, the mostly young immigrant women who worked in the textile mills of Lawrence, Mass., walked...
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14.7K8Business and LaborThe Pemberton Mill Disaster
On a wintry evening in 1860, textile workers in the huge Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., heard an odd rattle followed by...
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5.4K6MassachusettsBetsey Guppy Chamberlain Promotes the Radical Notion That Indians Are People
Betsey Guppy Chamberlain, a half-Algonquian mill girl, published some of the first – if not the first — criticisms of the way...
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