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Labor and Unions in America
Title: Labor and Unions in America
Category: History
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Labor and Unions in America
Labor and Unions in America
The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines.
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…showed last 75 words of 5231 total…nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Fink, Gary M., ed. Labor Unions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of America’s Wage-Earning Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Morris, Richard B., ed. A History of the American Worker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
This document was provided by THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY(1986; revised 1991) in the About the United States series. For more information, contact your local USIS cultural office
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