Bread--and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor, 1865-1915Penguin Publishing Group, 1977 - 231 стор. A documented account of the growth of the American labor movement from the Civil War to World War I. Examines labor conditions resulting from the change to mass production in mine, mill, and railroad; child labor; women workers; tenement life and sweatshops as contrasted to the life of the rich in the Gilded Age; and the strikes that made the union a permanent institution. |
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... mills in Lowell set hours from sunup to sunset . The work- day in April ran 13 hours and 31 minutes . It was no handful of children who trudged to the mills at dawn . A New England mechanics ' convention esti- mated in 1832 that about ...
... mills in Lowell set hours from sunup to sunset . The work- day in April ran 13 hours and 31 minutes . It was no handful of children who trudged to the mills at dawn . A New England mechanics ' convention esti- mated in 1832 that about ...
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... mills which , to put it in very common phrase , consists mainly in running about the floor - where there is not as much muscular exercise required as a child would put forth in play , and a child can do it about as well as a grown ...
... mills which , to put it in very common phrase , consists mainly in running about the floor - where there is not as much muscular exercise required as a child would put forth in play , and a child can do it about as well as a grown ...
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... mills . Pennsylvania , whose industrial conditions had earned it the title of " that state of colossal industrial crimes , " had 120,000 children working in its mines and mills in 1900. The state's silk mills and lace factories employed ...
... mills . Pennsylvania , whose industrial conditions had earned it the title of " that state of colossal industrial crimes , " had 120,000 children working in its mines and mills in 1900. The state's silk mills and lace factories employed ...
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Revolution by Machine | 3 |
Only Bread and Nothing More? | 6 |
Children in the Mills | 26 |
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