Lukol Directory: Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Labor: Labor Movement

The Campaign to End Child Labor
Documentary history of the first decades of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S., with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/index.ht...

Graveyards of Chicago: John Peter Altgeld
Grave marker 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.
http://www.graveyards.com/graceland/altgel...

The International Workingmen's Association
Documents from the First International.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works...

Address to the National Labor Union of the United States
From the minutes of the General Council meeting, May 11, 1869, as taken by George Eccarius.
http://www.marxists.org/history/internatio...

Child Labor
Article about child labor in the 19th century by David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8....

Sub Topics:
Winnipeg General Strike
Homestead Strike
Canada
United States
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Haymarket Riot


Related Topics:
Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: Women
Society: Issues: Labor
Society: Work: Labor Movement



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