HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1832 | Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England" | labor, women's work | ||
| 1837 | For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor. | A Massachusetts census shows that almost half of wage workers were braiding palm-leaf and straw for hats. | women's work. | |
| 1840 | Agitation for Ten-hour Day | labor | ||
| 1870 | French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns | labor, economy, immigration | ||
| 1886 | Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago | A Chicago Historical Society website lays out the evidence. | labor | |
| 1890 | Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles | labor, economy | ||
| 1894 | Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard | labor, population | ||
| 1912 | Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts | For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" | labor, economy | |
| 1912 | Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities | immigration, labor | ||
| 1924 | First of New England textile mills moves south | labor, economy | ||
| 1927 | Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed | labor |