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1793:
Cotton
Gin Petition - Eli Whitney |
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early
19c:
“The Treatment of the Help in Those Days Was Cruel” -
Hiram Munger Remembers Factory Life |
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1810:
“I Entered into Business, with Hope, Confidence, and
Activity” - Ann Carson Becomes an Independent Entrepreneur |
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1812:
Eli Whitney's
Patent for the Cotton Gin |
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1826:
“The Natural Tie Between Master and Apprentice has been Rent Asunder”-
An Old Apprentice Laments Changes in the Workplace |
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1826:
Sources and Effects of Unequal Wealth - Langdon Byllesby |
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1827:
Preamble of the Mechanics Union of Free Trade Associations |
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1827:
"Slave labour employed in manufactures ..." [Signed] Hamilton,
Philadelphia (10/2) - broadside |
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1829:
The Plan of the Cincinnati Labour for Labour Store - Josiah Warren |
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1829:
The
Report and Resolutions of the Committee of Fifty (NY) |
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1829:
The Rights of Man to Property! - Thomas Skidmore |
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1829:
"View of
Erie Canal" - watercolor by John William Hill |
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1829:
The Working Men's
Declaration of Independence - George H. Evans |
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1830:
"Address
to the Free People of Colour of these United States" - Richard Allen
on behalf of the colored citizens of Philadelphia (9/20-24) |
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1830:
Workingman's
Party Platform
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1831:
"An
Address to the Working Men of New England" - Seth Luther (pamphlet
excerpt) |
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1832:
Excerpt from An Address to the Working-Men of New-England |
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1834:
Boston Transcript reports
on the Strike |
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1834: "Early
Habits of Industry" - The Mother's Magazine |
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1834:
Poem/Song
Lyrics of the Lowell Factory Girls (1834, 1836) |
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1834:
Report of the National Trades' Union Convention (NY) |
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1834:
Resolution on Land - National Trades' Union (8/29) |
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1835:
"The
Canal Boat", New England Magazine - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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1835:
The
Demand for a 10-Hour Work Day by Boston Artisans |
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1835:
“Factories are talked about as schools of vice” - Elias Nason
Considers Careers |
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1835:
Statistics of Lowell manufactures, January 1, 1835. Compiled from
authentic sources |
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1835:
Ten-Hour Circular (Boston) |
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1836: An Account of a Visitor to Lowell |
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1836:
Equal Rights
Party's "Declaration of Rights" |
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1836:
The Harbinger -
Female Workers at Lowell, MA |
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1836:
Harriet
Robinson, Lowell Mill Girl - recollection of the strike of 1836 |
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1836:
Inequality of the Human Condition - WIlliam Leggett |
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1836:
"Loom and Spindle" - Harriet Robinson |
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1836:
The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike |
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1836:
The
New York Tailors' Strike - various newspaper accounts |
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1836:
"What is the Trades' Union?" - Pennsylvanian (2/9) |
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1837:
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge |
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1837:
"I never saw a busier place than Chicago …" -
Harriet Martineau |
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1840-60:
Immigration by Place of Origin: 1840-1860 - chart |
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1840-60:
Railroad
Growth, 1840-1860 - chart |
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1840:
Letters of Emeline Larcom |
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1840:
"The
Lowell Offering" main page of the factory newspaper
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1840:
Orestes A. Brownson's speech on "Free Labor" |
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1840:
"White
slavery!! or selling white men for debt!", Lexington, KY - leaflet (4
pages) |
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1841:
"Song
of the Spinners" (Lowell Mill, MA) |
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1844:
First telegraph message (5/24) |
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1844:
A Selection from the Lowell Offering |
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1845: "Female
Industrial Association" - New York Herald
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1845:
"The
Infancy of American Manufactures: A Brief Chapter from Our National
History" - The American Whig Review / Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan
1845 |
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1845: Resolutions
of the Boston Carpenters' Strike |
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1845:
“They Must Work Harder Than Ever” - “A Working Man” Remembers Life in
New York City, 1830s |
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1845:
“We Call On You to Deliver Us From the Tyrant’s Chain”
- Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten Hour Workday |
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1845:
"A Week in the Mill" - article in The Lowell Offering |
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1845-48:
Letters of Mary Paul |
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1845-53:
A Vermont Girl Goes to Work at the Lowell Mills |
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1846:
A Description of Early Factory Life - Lowell, MA |
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1846:
Recruitment of Lowell Operatives |
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1848:
"Industrial
Reform" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume 23,
Issue 126, Dec 1848 |
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1848:
Lowell Factory Rules |
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1850:
An Emigrant's Narrative; or a Voice from the Steerage - William Smith |
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mid-19c:
An Old New York Cabinet Maker - Experiences of Ernest Hagen |
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1853:
Timetable
of the Lowell Mills - scanned broadsheet |
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1855:
“There Is Something To Be Learned Even in
a Country Store” - P.T. Barnum Learns Commerce in a Connecticut
Country Store |
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1855:
World's Workingmen's Strike against War, four-pages of in
Olive Leaves - Elihu Burritt |
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1857:
Statistics of Lowell manufacturers. January 1857 - Compiled from
authentic sources - broadside |
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1860:
"The Age of Progress" - song lyrics |
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1860:
“ We Are Not Slaves” - Female Shoe and Textile Workers in Marblehead,
MA |
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1863:
“Are We Nothing But Living Machines -” A New York Sewing Woman
Protests Wages and Working Conditions |
