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History Sites, National Domestic Workers Alliance, ResourcesJanuary 3, 2022

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Domestic work is the work that makes all other work possible. Together, we can win the protections and recognition that this vital American workforce needs. Join us today!

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In 1820 Lowell, known as East Chelmsford, MA at the time, had a population of 200 and was a farming community. Thirty years later, the population had grown to 33,000 and one could find 32 textile mills in existence there. Lowell was an ideal location for these mills because it was located near the Merrimac River. The river supplied the water necessary to run these factories.

Boott Cotton Mills Museum

Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Clio, History Sites, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum gives a snapshot of what is was like to work in New England cotton mills in the 1800s. The Museum, once Boott Mill #6, was originally owned by Kirk Boott, an industrialist who was responsible for much of the early urban planning that shaped Lowell’s industrial and residential landscape.

John L. Lewis Memorial Museum of Mining and Labor

History Sites, Iowa, Local and Regional Resources, Resources

John L. Lewis was born February 12th 1880, to Welsh immigrant parents in the coal mining camp of Cleveland, Iowa- one mile East of Lucas, Iowa. He began working in the Big Hill Coal Mine in Lucas, IA as a teenager, joining the UMWA Local #799 in 1900. He began his rise to power in the United Mine Workers of America and served as President of the UMWA for forty years and was founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The Strike That Couldn’t Happen, The Great Postal Strike of March 1970

American Postal Workers Union, APWU, Great Postal Strike, Media, Postal Workers, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, Video, Videos

APWU remembers the Great Postal Strike of March 1970. For more background on the successful wildcat strike that earned postal workers the right to bargain collectively for better pay and benefits.

St. Paul 2020 Strike Photos, Set 1, Erica Schatzlein Collection

Erica Schatzlein, Media, Minnesota, Photo Gallery, Photos WTM, Photos WTM St Paul, Resources, St Paul, When Teachers Mobilize

A gallery of photos to explore.

How did the Lowell system contribute to the industrialization of the united states?

History Sites, Lisbdnet.com, Lowell, Lowell Mill Girls, Lowell Mills, Massachusetts, Resources

Lowell built on the advances made in the British textile industry, such as the use of the power loom, to industrialize American textile production. He was the first factory owner in the United States to create a textile mill that was vertically integrated.

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915

History Sites, Library of Congress, Resources

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 consists of 150 motion pictures, 62 of which also appear in other online collections. The majority of the films are from the Paper Print Collection, while the remainder are from the George Kleine Collection, both…

Bracero History Archive

Brown University, George Mason University, History Sites, Resources, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, The Institute of Oral History at UTEP, The Smithsonian National Museum of American History

The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of…