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Molly Maguires) The Pennsylvania Coal Mines ... Buckshots and the Molly McGuires on the Rampage....

(Molly Maguires) The Pennsylvania Coal Mines ... Buckshots and the Molly McGuires on the Rampage. Four Men Killed. (1863 front-page article from The New York Times)

The front and center article, in 1½ columns, describes the chaotic events in Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, coal country. This “Irish, Welch and German..... Read More about Molly Maguires) The Pennsylvania Coal Mines ... Buckshots and the Molly McGuires on the Rampage....

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Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...

[Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation Company. The Army Can Wait No Longer… [opening lines of broadside]

Unrecorded World War II military directive issued to employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company on strike in protest against Black employees taking on non-menial jobs..... Read More about Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...

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Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them. Benj. J. Crew

[Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them.

Scarce. The author was the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty. He provides its history, philosophy, and its progressive-thinking activities to..... Read More about Child Labor and Reform:] Our Jewels; and the Work of Resetting Them

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The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...

The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The Governor’s Interracial Commission.

Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to Black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state..... Read More about The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...

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Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776. Abbot Emerson Smith

Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776.

“Colonists In Bondage tells the paradoxical story of those white men and women who endured servitude as a road to freedom. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they..... Read More about Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776

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Bases of the Plantation Society. Aubrey C. Land

Bases of the Plantation Society.

Anthology of 63 primary source materials on the history and economics of the plantation system of agriculture in the southern colonies of British America. Chapters..... Read More about Bases of the Plantation Society

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Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...

Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both co-authors]

The book documents the slave-hire system with particular focus on the production and use of slave badges and the documentary evidence on the hiring of..... Read More about Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...

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The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South. William L. Van...

The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South.

Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South

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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots, July, 1892....

Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots, July, 1892. Capital and Labor.

Original reports of the congressional investigation of the Homestead Riots; this copy specially bound by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and this also being William Pinkerton’s..... Read More about Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and its Connection with the Homestead Riots, July, 1892....

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“The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...

“The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865 [manuscript caption title].

Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...

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Black Workers and the New Unions. Horace R. Cayton, George S. Mitchell

Black Workers and the New Unions.

Examination of the “problems of Negro labor and its relation to white labor, North and South, under the impact of the New Deal.” Cayton and..... Read More about Black Workers and the New Unions

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The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia. Lorenzo J. Greene, Myra Colson Callis

The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia.

Contents include, “...The Color Line in Washington Industries; Changes in Employment of Negro Workers; Negro Government Employees; Gains and Losses in Industry Summarized…” Washington, D.C...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia

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Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History. Charles H. Wesley

Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History.

Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of..... Read More about Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History

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Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History. Charles H. Wesley

Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History.

Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of..... Read More about Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History

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Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow Wilson,...

Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]

WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More about Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title

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1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection]. Social Security Board Federal Security Agency

[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection].

The Social Security Act of 1935 was amended in 1939 to provide workers with dependents benefits and survivors benefits. These five pamphlets issued by the..... Read More about 1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection

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