Along the Blackstone, Episode 72 - "We Walk!" Labor Struggles in the Blackstone Valley скачать в хорошем качестве

Along the Blackstone, Episode 72 - "We Walk!" Labor Struggles in the Blackstone Valley

The change from an agricultural-based society to an industrial society is a dramatic transition with huge implications for all. The start of America's journey towards industrialization was a learning experience for both mill owner, factory manager and for the workers too, all very new to the factory system. But it is the struggle for safe working conditions, fair pay, an eight hour work day and other aspects of work that we have come to see as part of today's normal working conditions that took over a century and half to develop that speaks directly to the challenges of our early industrial system. These challenges are well illustrated in the stories of the Women's Textile Strike of 1824 and the comparisons of the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike with the 1913 Draper Strike in Hopedale by historians Scott Molloy, Al Klyberg and Anne Mattina.