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Labor in America
Title: Labor in America
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 4881 | Pages: 20.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Labor in America
LABOR IN AMERICA
By IBN ALI
(Scholastic Inc.)
The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts,
the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would
be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth
would be driven by water power. All that the factory owners needed was a dependable
supply of labor to tend the machines.
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to include employees of federal, state and local governments as well as other professionals.
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**Bibliography**
Fink, Gary M., ed.
Biographical Dictionary of American Labor. 2nd ed.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Fink, Gary M., ed.
Labor Unions.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Kessler-Harris, Alice.
Out to Work: A History of America's Wage-Earning Women.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Morris, Richard B., ed.
A History of the American Worker.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
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