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- Child Labor
Article about child labor in the 19th century by David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College.
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- Graveyards of Chicago:John Peter Altgeld
Gravemarker photograph and short biography of the Illinois governor who pardoned participants of the Haymarket Riots and refused to send in troops against the striking railway workers.
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- Mother Jones
A short biography of the labor activist, who led a march of textile workers from Philadelphia to New York to plead before Theodore Roosevelt.
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- Pullman Strike
Details the causes, events, and long-term consequences of the 1894 strike of railroad workers againt the Pullman Car Company.
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- Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers
As the power and scale of American industry grew during the 19th century, working conditions for most Americans underwent radical change. Mechanized, large-scale factories staffed by unskilled laborers gradually came to replace specialized craftsmen and small workshops. Samuel Gompers, more than any other individual, helped to modernize the unions, organize them on a national scale, and open their doors to unskilled as well as skilled workers.
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- The Campaign to End Child Labor
Documentary history of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S. in the early 1900s, with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
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