19th-Century Labor Unions

Shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Massachusetts, March 17, 1860, zoomable image

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Events

Date	Event
03/30/1852	Ohio restricts hours for women workers
09/26/1859	Striking miners attack "blackleg" workers in the Pittsburgh coalfields
11/05/1859	Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast
01/23/1860	Committee to help survivors of the Pemberton Mills Disaster say sufficient funds have been collected
02/20/1860	Stone cutters working on the new Catholic Cathedral in New York City down tools
02/22/1860	Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts
02/27/1860	Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead
03/08/1860	Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts
05/08/1863	Twelve railwaymen in Michigan form the Brotherhood of the Footboard, first permanent engineers' union
05/23/1863	Ferdinand Lasalle founds the first worker's party in Germany, forerunner of today's Social Democratic Party

Documents

Date	Title
04/29/1859	New York Times, “A Strike of Brick-yard Laborers,” April 29, 1859
03/04/1860	New York Herald, “Northern White Slaves and Southern Black Ones,” March 4, 1860
03/17/1860	New York Times, "The Massachusetts Strike," March 17, 1860
03/27/1860	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Failure Of A Strike,” March 27, 1860

Images

Shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Massachusetts, March 17, 1860, zoomable image

Shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Massachusetts, March 17, 1860, zoomable image

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