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1857:
Social Darwinism - Herbert Spencer |
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1864-1914:
Index of U.S. Manufacturing Production, 1864-1914 - chart |
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1870-1900:
Iron, Steel, and Coal Production 1870-1900 - chart |
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187?:
"Labor and wages, as they are affected by a depreciated currency" -
leaflet |
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1870:
"The labor movement. Mass meeting of working-men at the Mechanics'
Pavilion, speeches of General A. M. Winn, Hon. Philip A. Roach, C. C.
Terrill, Frank M. Pixley, and others - The Southern Pacific railroad"
- pamphlet |
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1871:
"Children Who Work" - Scribners Monthly / Volume 1, Issue 6,
April 1871 |
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1872:
"Millions of Acres" - railroad land grant broadside |
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1872:
New York City--The
Eight-hour Movement--Procession of workingmen on a 'strike,' in the
Bowery, June 10th, 1872." - wood engraving based on a sketch by
Matthew Morgan, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (6/29) |
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1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
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1873:
The
Slaughter-House Cases |
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1874:
National Labor Reform Platform |
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1876:
Greenback Party Platform |
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1877:
Munn
v. Illinois |
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1877:
"Pennsylvania--The
railroad riot in Pittsburgh--The Philadelphia militia firing on the
mob" - wood engraving based on a sketch by John Donaghy, Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (supplement) - 8/4 |
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1877:
The Strike of 1877 - Allan Pinkerton |
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1878:
Bland-Allison Act (2/28) |
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1878:
"The Bland silver bill. To the editor of the Herald." -
New York (1/10) - broadside |
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1878:
“Leave Them Alone; That Is the Remedy” - A
Manufacturer’s Solution to the Depression |
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1878:
"Ode to the Odious" - Phillips Thomson Ridicules
Laissez-Faire |
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1878:
On the Road Again - Pinkerton on the Tramp |
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1878:
“Our Misery and Despair” - Denis Kearney Blasts Chinese
Immigration |
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1878:
Silver
Purchase Act |
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1878:
“Store Pay Is Our Ruin”- The Tyranny of the Company Store -
Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics
First Annual Report |
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1878:
“We ask it; we demand it, and we intend to have it” -
Printer Albert R. Parsons Testifies before Congress about the Eight
Hour Day |
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1878:
The Workingman’s Ten
Commandments -
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen’s Monthly Magazine |
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1879:
“Poor Little Stephen Girard" -
Mark Twain Lampoons the Horatio Alger
Myth |
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1879:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry |
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1879:
Progress
and Poverty - Henry George |
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1880:
Acceptance of the Greenback-Labor Party Nomination - James B. Weaver |
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1880:
Greenback-Labor Party Platform |
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1880s:
“In the Beginning . . .” - A Knight of Labor's Sacred
Oath |
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1881:
"American
federation of labor endeavors to unite all classes of wage-workers
under one head, through their several organizations to the end. 1 That
class, race, creed, political and trade prejudices may be abolished.
2. That
support, moral and financial, may be given to each other ...
Washington, D. C." - broadside
(image) |
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1881:
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor |
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1881:
The Story of a Great Monopoly - H. D. Lloyd (March) |
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1881-1911:
A. F. of
L. membership chart (at the bottom of the page) |
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1882:
"The Factory System as an Element in Civilization" - from
Carroll D.
Wright. Journal of Social Science. 16:1 (1882).
101-126 |
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1883:
Pendleton Act |
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1883:
“Pure and Simple” - Making the Case for Unionism |
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1883:
“The Rich Are Good-Natured” - William Graham Sumner
Defends the Wealthy |
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1883:
Testimony of a Machinist - John Morrison |
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1883:
Walt Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Contribution to
America |
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1884:
Equal Rights Party Platform |
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1884:
Greenback Party Platform |
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1884:
“‘The Issue of Protection to American Labor.’—Blaine” - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (9/20) |
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1884:
"The Lords of Industry" - Henry Demarest Lloyd in North American
Review CCCXXXI (June) |
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1884:
“Selfish wealth is never good” - A Worker’s Definition
of Success |
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1884:
Six Families Budget Their Money -
Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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1884:
"The Working Girls of
Boston" -
Fifteenth Annual
Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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1885:
Lecture to Young Men - Andrew Carnegie |
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1885:
"Pullman: A Social Study" - article by Richard T. Ely in Harper's
Magazine 70 (Feb.) |
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1885:
“Rock Springs is Killed” - White Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot |
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1885:
“To This We Dissented” - The Rock Springs Riot |
|
|
1886:
August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement |
|
|
1886:
“The Bad News From Chicago” - Labor Organizer Oscar
Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights
of Labor (as recalled in 1940) |
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|
1886:
Condemned Haymarket Anarchist - address by
George Engel |
|
|
1886:
“A Healthy Public Opinion” - Terence V. Powderly
Distances the Knights of Labor from the Haymarket Martyrs (as recalled
in 1890) |
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|
1886:
Black Comedy - Racial Controversy at the Richmond
Convention |
|
|
1886:
Knight Errant - Drawing the Line on Black-White
Equality |
|
|
1886:
Knights of
Labor Song |
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1886:
Race and
Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention |
|
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1886:
"The
Rise and Fall of Anarchy …" - George N. McLean |
|
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1887:
Advice on Working and Saving |
|
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1887:
Interstate Commerce Act |
|
|
1887:
Introducing New Recruits to “Labor’s Catechism” |
|
|
1887:
Leonora M.
Barry's Report to the Knights of Labor |
|
|
1887:
“Making Common Cause” - The Knights’ Assembly Hall |
|
|
1888:
Equal Rights Party Platform |
|
|
1888:
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy (excerpt) |
|
|
1888:
Prohibition Party Platform |
|
|
1888:
"Demonetization of Silver: by Sarah E.V. Emery in
Seven Financial Conspiracies Which Have Enslaved
the American People
|
|
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1888:
Union Labor Party Platform |
|
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1889:
Altared
States - Marriage Ends a Knights of Labor Organizer’s Career |
|
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1889:
The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie |
|
|
1889:
Home Sweet Home - Building and Loan Associations Lend a
Hand |
|
|
1889:
Divided We Conquer - A White Plantation Owner
Undermines the Knights of Labor |
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1880s:
“The Baby Was Made ‘Delegate No. 800’” - Frances
Willard Meets Elizabeth Rodgers in the 1880s |
|
|
late 1880s:
“The Greatest Tyrant in the State of Pennsylvania”- A
Late Nineteenth-Century Rail Worker Describes Management |
|
|
1890:
"The Message of
Jesus to Men of Wealth" - address delivered by George D. Herron (9/22) |
|
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1890:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (7/2) |
|
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1890-1926:
Chart on Consumerism Statistics |
|
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1891:
Digging for Answers - A Black Miner Ponders Racism |
|
|
1891:
"On the Condition of the Working Classes" - from the encyclical letter
[Rerum Novarum] of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (5/15) |
|
|
1892:
A Call To Action by James B. Weaver |
|
|
1892:
Henry Frick Makes His Case |
|
|
1892:
"The Homestead Strike"
- song lyrics |
|
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1892:
Homestead Strike documents |
|
|
1892:
“I Will Kill Frick”- Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt
to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the-
Homestead Strike in 1892 (as recalled in 1930) |
|
|
1892:
"The Incident of the 6th of July" [Homestead Strike] - Illustrated
American (7/16) |
|
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1892:
"The Military Versus Labor" - Illustrated American (7/30) |
|
|
1892:
Selections from
"Organized Labor in the Campaign," North American Review,
CLV (July) by Samuel Gompers |
|
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1892:
"The Situation at Homestead" - Illustrated American (7/23) |
|
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1892:
The Socialist Labor Party Platform |
|
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1892:
Spies for Hire - Advertising by the Pinkerton Agency |
|
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1892:
Swinton’s Silver Lining - Taking Comfort in the 1892
Strikes |
|
|
1892:
Telling Secrets Out of School - Charles Siringo on the
Pinkertons |
|
|
1892:
Various
Documents on the Homestead Strike
(additional documents) |
|
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1893:
“Certain Fundamental Truths” - The AFL Protests
Unemployment |
|
|
1893:
“If A Diogenes Prefers Poverty” - Lewelling Defends the
Rights of the Unemployed |
|
|
1893:
Pardon Message by
Gov. John Peter Altgeld of the Haymarket anarchists (6/26) |
|
|
1893:
Friends in High Places - A Pro-Labor Governor, Davis
Waite (CO), Speaks Out |
|
|
1893:
Suit by the United States Against the Workingman's Amalgamated
Council of New Orleans |
|
|
1893:
What’s Good for the Goose. . . - Labor and the Theory
of Evolution |
|
|
1894:
Address to 1894
Convention of American Railway Union - Jennie Curtis, President of ARU
Local 269, the "Girls" Local Union |
|
|
1894:
Are Sleeping Cars Protected by the Constitution - Mr.
Dooley on the Pullman Strike |
|
|
1894:
Eugene Debs addresses the American Railway Union |
|
|
1894:
Father Knows Best - Strikers Denounce Pullman |
|
|
1894:
“For the Further Benefit of Our People” - George
Pullman Answers His Strikers |
|
|
1894:
"The Great Railroad Strike of 1894" - part 13 from the autobiography
of Frank A. Leach |
|
|
1894:
"Homestead and its Perilous Trades--Impressions of a Visit" - Hamlin
Garland in McClure's Magazine (June) |
|
|
1894:
"In the Depths of a Coal Mine" - Stephen Crane in McClure's
Magazine (Aug.) |
|
|
1894:
Letters on the Pullman Strike |
|
|
1894:
"The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires"--Stories from the Archives of
the Pinkerton Detective Agency - Cleveland Moffett in McClure's
Magazine (pp. 90-100) |
|
|
1894:
Various
Documents on the Pullman Strike
(additional documents) |
|
|
1894:
Wealth Against the Commonwealth
- Henry Demarest Lloyd |
|
|
1895:
A Pledge of Allegiance - Joining the Grange |
|
|
1895:
In re Debs |
|
|
1895:
Plate, Punch Card, and Instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric
Sorting and Tabulating Machine |
|
|
1895:
United
States v. E. C. Knight Co. |
|
|
1896:
A Call to Arms - George McNeill’s Unshakable Faith in
Labor’s Future |
|
|
1896:
Samuel Gompers,
President, American Federation of Labor, Indianapolis, “To Affiliated
Unions,” 27 June 1896, National Labor Standard (July) |
|
|
1896:
"The
Problem of the West" - Frederick Jackson Turner in Atlantic Monthly
(Sept.) |
|
|
1896:
The Science of
Railways: Organization and Forces - Marshall Kirkman |
|
|
1897:
“The Business of a
Factory” - Philip G. Hubert, Jr., Scribner’s (Jan.-June) |
|
|
1897:
Was Christ a Union Man |
|
|
1897-1920:
Labor Union Membership, 1897-1920 - chart |
|
|
1898:
"George
Rice Loses Out to Standard Oil" - New York World (10/16) |
|
|
1898:
Holden v. Hardy |
|
|
1898:
White Women Protest the Hiring of Black “Wage-Slaves” |
|
|
1898:
Working Her Fingers to the Bone - Agnes Nestor's Story |
|
|
1899:
"The Battery of Imperialism" - political cartoon by Horace Taylor in
The Verdict (9/25) |
|
|
1899:
“The Brotherhood of Man” - A Unionist Uses the Bible |
|
|
1899:
"How to crush monopoly! The remedy for trusts. Hon. M. L. Lockwood of
Zelienopole, Pa., President of the American anti-trust league,
declares for public ownership of railways in his address before the
industrial commission" - broadside |
|
|
1899:
John D. Rockefeller on Industrial Combinations |
|
|
1899:
"The Trust Giant's Point of View - What a Funny Little Government" -
political cartoon by Horace Taylor in The Verdict (9/25) |
|
|
1899:
"Uncle Sam Walks the Plank" - political cartoon about trusts in The
Verdict (5/22) |
|
|
1890s:
“The Poisonous Occupations in Illinois”- Physician
Alice Hamilton Explores the “Dangerous Trades” at the Turn of the
Century (as recalled in 1943) |
|
|
early 20c:
"The
Ludlow Massacre" (1914) - song lyrics by Woody Guthrie |
|
|
early 20c:
T-Bone Slim Pens “The Lumberjack’s Prayer” |
|
|
early 20c:
"The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands" - song
dedicated to
the Waistmakers of 1909 |
|
|
1900:
“In
the Sight of God”- Woes of a Miner’s Wife - Ettie West (Voorhees,
Indiana) to the editor, The United Mine Workers Journal (3/8) |
|
|
1900:
Letter from Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the
Wright brothers' aviation experiments (5/13) |
|
|
1900:
"On Strike!" - Earl W. Mayo (about the Anthracite Coal Strike) from
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (Nov.) |
|
|
1900:
"The Outlook for Socialism in the United States" - Eugene V. Debs |
|
|
1900-1:
"The Changing Character of Immigration" - Kate Holladay Claghorn from
World's Work, Vol. 1, 1900-01 |
|
|
1901:
Pauline Neuman's Letter Describing Working Conditions at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory |
|
|
1902:
"A Hint from a Slave Driver" - political cartoon on the coal strike in
the Chicago News |
|
|
1902:
"Americans in the Raw: The high-tide of
immigrants—their strange possessions and their meager wealth—what
becomes of them" - Edward Lowry from The
World's Work, 1902 |
|
|
1902:
"The Coal Strike Hearings" - Miners Testify as to the Hardships of
Their Employment, Etc. - from Public Opinion (12/18) |
|
|
1902:
"The
Coal Strike Settlement - a Commision Proposed by the Operators and
Accepted by the Miners - from Public Opinion (10/23) |
|
|
1902:
“Oh God,
For One More Breath” - Early 20th century Tennessee Coal Miners’ Last
Words |
|
|
1902:
"Try This Road" - political cartoon on the coal strike in the New
York Herald |
|
|
1902:
"Well done, Mr. President" - political cartoon on the Anthracite Coal
Strike of 1902 |
|
|
1902:
"The Washington School Master" - political cartoon in the Chicago
Chronicle on the coal strike |
|
|
1902-4?:
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