Market Revolution

Lynne Shoeworkers' Strike (Murrin, 1999)

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The modest labor-union activities of the 1850s revived after the depression, as workers in some industries went on strike to bring wages back to pre-panic levels.  In February 1860 the shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, began a strike that became the largest in U.S. history up to that time, eventually involving 20,000 workers in the New England shoe industry.  Nevertheless, in spite of the organization of several national unions of skilled workers during the 1850s, less than 1 percent of the labor force was unionized in 1860.
John M. Murrin et al., Liberty Equality Power: A History of the American People, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1999), 490.
Date Event
Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts
Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead
Christopher Spencer receives a patent for his magazine-fed, lever action rifle
Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts
Date Title
President Jefferson Davis, Message to the Confederate Congress, November 18, 1861
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