Trade unions and progressive movements rightly demand better wages and working conditions for employees to improve society.

Both publications are quoted in the book “Pittsylvania’s Nineteenth Century Grist Mills” by late county historian Herman Melton (1991). The origin of the name Galveston, according to local legend, ...

the first cotton bale had already arrived at the Waaghaus trading house on Marktgasse in Winterthur. Initially involved in spinning mills and textile manufacturing, Rieter continued to develop over ...

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But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

Gilded mansions, quahogs, sailing culture and the famous Cliff Walk are some of what Rhode Island is known for. Find out the ...

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In the mid-19th century, French poet Charles Baudelaire ... What had once been flaunted in cotton tank tops now took shape in dark worsted wool: extended shoulder pads, inflated chests and waists ...

Two Young Boys Working at the Wamsutta Mill in New Bedford, Massachusetts ... As the story so often goes, in the late-19th century, America became a prosperous, industrial superpower founded on stable ...