 |
1857:
Social Darwinism - Herbert Spencer |
|
|
1864-1914:
Index of U.S. Manufacturing Production, 1864-1914 - chart |
|
|
1870-1900:
Iron, Steel, and Coal Production 1870-1900 - chart |
|
|
187?:
"Labor and wages, as they are affected by a depreciated currency" -
leaflet |
|
|
1870:
"The labor movement. Mass meeting of working-men at the Mechanics'
Pavilion, speeches of General A. M. Winn, Hon. Philip A. Roach, C. C.
Terrill, Frank M. Pixley, and others - The Southern Pacific railroad"
- pamphlet |
|
|
1871:
"Children Who Work" - Scribners Monthly / Volume 1, Issue 6,
April 1871 |
|
|
1872:
"Millions of Acres" - railroad land grant broadside |
|
|
1876-1920:
Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart |
|
|
1873:
The
Slaughter-House Cases |
|
|
1877:
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - NYS Library - multiple documents
midway down the page |
|
|
1877:
Munn
v. Illinois |
|
|
1877:
"Pennsylvania--The
railroad riot in Pittsburgh--The Philadelphia militia firing on the
mob" - wood engraving based on a sketch by John Donaghy, Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (supplement) - 8/4 |
|
|
1877:
The Strike of 1877 - Allan Pinkerton |
|
|
1878:
Bland-Allison Act (2/28) |
|
|
1878:
"The Bland silver bill. To the editor of the
Herald." -
New York (1/10) - broadside |
|
|
1878:
Greenback
Party $5 Bill advertisement |
|
|
1878:
“Leave Them Alone; That Is the Remedy” - A
Manufacturer’s Solution to the Depression |
|
|
1878:
"Ode to the Odious" - Phillips Thomson Ridicules
Laissez-Faire |
|
|
1878:
On the Road Again - Pinkerton on the Tramp |
|
|
1878:
“Our Misery and Despair” - Denis Kearney Blasts Chinese
Immigration |
|
|
1878:
Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor |
|
|
1878:
Silver
Purchase Act |
|
|
1878:
“Store Pay Is Our Ruin”- The Tyranny of the Company Store -
Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics First Annual Report |
|
|
1878:
“We ask it; we demand it, and we intend to have it” -
Printer Albert R. Parsons Testifies before Congress about the Eight
Hour Day |
|
|
1878:
The Workingman’s Ten
Commandments -
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen’s Monthly Magazine |
|
|
1879:
“Poor Little Stephen Girard" -
Mark Twain Lampoons the Horatio Alger
Myth |
|
|
1879:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry |
|
|
1879:
Progress
and Poverty - Henry George |
|
|
1880s:
“In the Beginning . . .” - A Knight of Labor's Sacred
Oath |
|
|
1880:
Nation Greenback-Labor Party
document |
|
|
1880:
A South Carolina Greenbacker Explains His Opposition to Democrats |
|
|
1881:
"American
federation of labor endeavors to unite all classes of wage-workers
under one head, through their several organizations to the end. 1 That
class, race, creed, political and trade prejudices may be abolished.
2. That
support, moral and financial, may be given to each other ...
Washington, D. C." - broadside
(image) |
|
|
1881:
The Story of a Great Monopoly - H. D. Lloyd (March) |
|
|
1881-1911:
A. F. of
L. membership chart (at the bottom of the page) |
|
|
1882:
"The Factory System as an Element in Civilization" - from
Carroll D.
Wright. Journal of Social Science. 16:1 (1882).
101-126 |
|
|
1883:
Interview with Thomas O'Donnell - "The Life of a Mule-Spinner"
(abridged) |
|
|
1883:
Pendleton Act |
|
|
1883:
“Pure and Simple” - Making the Case for Unionism |
|
|
1883:
“The Rich Are Good-Natured” - William Graham Sumner
Defends the Wealthy |
|
|
1883:
Testimony of a Machinist - John Morrison |
|
|
1883:
Walt Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Contribution to
America |
|
|
1884:
Greenback Party Platform |
|
|
1884:
“‘The Issue of Protection to American Labor.’—Blaine” - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (9/20) |
|
|
1884:
"The Lords of Industry" - Henry Demarest Lloyd in
North American
Review CCCXXXI (June) |
|
|
1884:
“Selfish wealth is never good” - A Worker’s Definition
of Success |
|
|
1884:
Six Families Budget Their Money -
Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics |
|
|
1884:
"The Working Girls of
Boston" -
Fifteenth Annual
Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics |
|
|
1885:
Knights of Labor General Assembly Constitution |
|
|
1885:
Lecture to Young Men - Andrew Carnegie |
|
|
1885:
"Pullman: A Social Study" - article by Richard T. Ely in
Harper's
Magazine 70 (Feb.) |
|
|
1885:
"The Road to Business Success" - Andrew Carnegie (abridged) |
|
|
1885:
“Rock Springs is Killed” - White Reaction to the Rock Springs Riot |
|
|
1885:
“To This We Dissented” - The Rock Springs Riot |
|
|
1886:
August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement |
|
|
1886:
“The Bad News From Chicago” - Labor Organizer Oscar
Ameringer Describes the Effect of the Haymarket Bombing on the Knights
of Labor (as recalled in 1940) |
|
|
1886:
Condemned Haymarket Anarchist - address by
George Engel |
|
|
1886:
“A Healthy Public Opinion” - Terence V. Powderly
Distances the Knights of Labor from the Haymarket Martyrs (as recalled
in 1890) |
|
|
1886:
Black Comedy - Racial Controversy at the Richmond
Convention |
|
|
1886:
Knight Errant - Drawing the Line on Black-White
Equality |
|
|
1886:
Knights of
Labor Platform |
|
|
1886:
Knights of
Labor Song |
|
|
1886:
Race and
Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention |
|
|
1886:
"The
Rise and Fall of Anarchy …" - George N. McLean |
|
|
1887:
Advice on Working and Saving |
|
|
1887:
Interstate Commerce Act |
|
|
1887:
Introducing New Recruits to “Labor’s Catechism” |
|
|
1887:
Leonora M.
Barry's Report to the Knights of Labor |
|
|
1887:
“Making Common Cause” - The Knights’ Assembly Hall |
|
|
1887:
"Women's Work" - Knights of Labor broadside summoning women
(Philadelphia) |
|
|
1888:
Equal Rights Party Platform |
|
|
1888:
Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy (excerpt) |
|
|
1888:
Prohibition Party Platform |
|
|
1888:
"Demonetization of Silver: by Sarah E.V. Emery in
Seven Financial Conspiracies Which Have Enslaved
the American People |
|
|
1888:
Union Labor Party Platform |
|
|
1889:
Altared
States - Marriage Ends a Knights of Labor Organizer’s Career |
|
|
1889:
The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie |
|
|
1889:
Home Sweet Home - Building and Loan Associations Lend a
Hand |
|
|
1889:
Divided We Conquer - A White Plantation Owner
Undermines the Knights of Labor |
|
|
1880s:
“The Baby Was Made ‘Delegate No. 800’” - Frances
Willard Meets Elizabeth Rodgers in the 1880s |
|
|
late 1880s:
“The Greatest Tyrant in the State of Pennsylvania”- A
Late Nineteenth-Century Rail Worker Describes Management |
|
|
1890:
"The Message of
Jesus to Men of Wealth" - address delivered by George D. Herron (9/22) |
|
|
1890:
"The Pleas for
Eight Hours" - Terence V. Powderly |
|
|
1890:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (7/2) |
|
|
1890-1926:
Chart on Consumerism Statistics |
|
|
1891:
Digging for Answers - A Black Miner Ponders Racism |
|
|
1891:
"On the Condition of the Working Classes" - from the encyclical letter
[Rerum Novarum] of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (5/15) |
|
|
1892:
A Call To Action by James B. Weaver (Ch. XIX) |
|
|
1892:
Henry Frick Makes His Case |
|
|
1892:
"The Homestead Strike"
- song lyrics |
|
|
1892:
Homestead Strike documents |
|
|
1892:
“I Will Kill Frick”- Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt
to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the-
Homestead Strike in 1892 (as recalled in 1930) |
|
|
1892:
"The Incident of the 6th of July" [Homestead Strike] -
Illustrated
American (7/16) |
|
|
1892:
"The Military Versus Labor" -
Illustrated American (7/30) |
|
|
1892:
A Photographic Essay of the PA Militia during the Homestead Strike |
|
|
1892:
"The Situation at Homestead" -
Illustrated American (7/23) |
|
|
1892:
The Socialist Labor Party Platform |
|
|
1892:
Spies for Hire - Advertising by the Pinkerton Agency |
|
|
1892:
Swinton’s Silver Lining - Taking Comfort in the 1892
Strikes |
|
|
1892:
Telling Secrets Out of School - Charles Siringo on the
Pinkertons |
|
|
1893:
"Capital in its Stronghold" excerpts - Arthur G. Burgoyne |
|
|
1893:
“Certain Fundamental Truths” - The AFL Protests
Unemployment |
|
|
1893:
“If A Diogenes Prefers Poverty” - Lewelling Defends the
Rights of the Unemployed |
|
|
1893:
"Labor Day
and Its Significance" - Terence V. Powderly |
|
|
1893:
Pardon Message by
Gov. John Peter Altgeld of the Haymarket anarchists (6/26) |
|
|
1893:
Friends in High Places - A Pro-Labor Governor, Davis
Waite (CO), Speaks Out |
|
|
1893:
Suit by the United States Against the Workingman's Amalgamated
Council of New Orleans |
|
|
1893:
What’s Good for the Goose. . . - Labor and the Theory
of Evolution |
|
|
1894:
Address to 1894
Convention of American Railway Union - Jennie Curtis, President of ARU
Local 269, the "Girls" Local Union |
|
|
1894:
Are Sleeping Cars Protected by the Constitution - Mr.
Dooley on the Pullman Strike |
|
|
1894:
Eugene Debs addresses the American Railway Union |
|
|
1894:
Father Knows Best - Strikers Denounce Pullman |
|
|
1894:
“For the Further Benefit of Our People” - George
Pullman Answers His Strikers |
|
|
1894:
"The Great Railroad Strike of 1894" - part 13 from the autobiography
of Frank A. Leach |
|
|
1894: "Homestead and its Perilous Trades--Impressions of a Visit" - Hamlin
Garland in McClure's Magazine (June) |
|
|
1894:
"Homestead as Seen by one of its Workmen" [a response to the Garland
article] |
|
|
1894:
"In the Depths of a Coal Mine" - Stephen Crane in
McClure's
Magazine (Aug.) |
|
|
1894:
Letters on the Pullman Strike |
|
|
1894:
"The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires"--Stories from the Archives of
the Pinkerton Detective Agency - Cleveland Moffett in McClure's
Magazine (pp. 90-100) |
|
|
1894:
Various
Documents on the Pullman Strike
(additional documents) |
|
|
1894:
Wealth Against the Commonwealth
- Henry Demarest Lloyd |
|
|
1895:
A Pledge of Allegiance - Joining the Grange |
|
|
1895:
In re Debs |
|
|
1895:
Plate, Punch Card, and Instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric
Sorting and Tabulating Machine |
|
|
1895:
United
States v. E. C. Knight Co. |
|
|
1896:
A Call to Arms - George McNeill’s Unshakable Faith in
Labor’s Future |
|
|
1896:
Samuel Gompers,
President, American Federation of Labor, Indianapolis, “To Affiliated
Unions,” 27 June 1896, National Labor Standard (July) |
|
|
1896:
"The
Problem of the West" - Frederick Jackson Turner in Atlantic Monthly
(Sept.) |
|
|
1896:
The Science of
Railways: Organization and Forces - Marshall Kirkman |
|
|
1897:
“The Business of a
Factory” - Philip G. Hubert, Jr., Scribner’s (Jan.-June) |
|
|
1897:
Was Christ a Union Man |
|
|
1897-1920:
Labor Union Membership, 1897-1920 - chart |
|
|
1898:
Holden v. Hardy |
|
|
1898:
White Women Protest the Hiring of Black “Wage-Slaves” |
|
|
1898:
Working Her Fingers to the Bone - Agnes Nestor's Story |
|
|
1899:
“The Brotherhood of Man” - A Unionist Uses the Bible |
|
|
1899:
"How to crush monopoly! The remedy for trusts. Hon. M. L. Lockwood of
Zelienopole, Pa., President of the American anti-trust league,
declares for public ownership of railways in his address before the
industrial commission" - broadside |
|
|
1899:
John D. Rockefeller on Industrial Combinations |
|
|
1899:
"The Trust Giant's Point of View - What a Funny Little Government" -
political cartoon by Horace Taylor in The Verdict (9/25) |
|
|
1899:
"Uncle Sam Walks the Plank" - political cartoon about trusts in
The
Verdict (5/22) |
|
|
1890s:
“The Poisonous Occupations in Illinois”- Physician
Alice Hamilton Explores the “Dangerous Trades” at the Turn of the
Century (as recalled in 1943) |
|
|
early 20c:
"The
Ludlow Massacre" (1914) - song lyrics by Woody Guthrie |
|
|
early 20c:
T-Bone Slim Pens “The Lumberjack’s Prayer” |
|
|
early 20c:
"The Uprising of the Twenty Thousands" - song
dedicated to
the Waistmakers of 1909 |
|
|
1900:
“In
the Sight of God”- Woes of a Miner’s Wife - Ettie West (Voorhees,
Indiana) to the editor, The United Mine Workers Journal (3/8) |
|
|
1900:
Letter from Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the
Wright brothers' aviation experiments (5/13) |
|
|
1900:
"On Strike!" - Earl W. Mayo (about the Anthracite Coal Strike) from
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (Nov.) |
|
|
1900:
"The Outlook for Socialism in the United States" - Eugene V. Debs |
|
|
1900-1:
"The Changing Character of Immigration" - Kate Holladay Claghorn from
World's Work, Vol. 1, 1900-01 |
|
|
1901:
Pauline Neuman's Letter Describing Working Conditions at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory |
|
|
1902:
"Americans in the Raw: The high-tide of
immigrants—their strange possessions and their meager wealth—what
becomes of them" - Edward Lowry from
The
World's Work, 1902 |
|
|
1902:
"The Coal Strike Hearings" - Miners Testify as to the Hardships of
Their Employment, Etc. - from Public Opinion (12/18) |
|
|
1902:
“Oh God,
For One More Breath” - Early 20th century Tennessee Coal Miners’ Last
Words |
|
|
1902-4?:
Union-Busting at Cripple Creek - yellow-dog contract |
|
|
1903:
A Craft Unionist
Rewrites the Ten Commandments - G. Edmonston, the first President of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The Florida Labor
Journal (May) |
|
|
1903:
“A Foretaste of the
Orient” - John Murray, International Socialist Review (August) |
|
|
1903:
"How
to Succeed in Life" - Andrew Carnegie |
|
|
1903:
Thugs for Hire - Ads for Security Guards |
|
|
1904:
Eugene V. Debs Speaks
During the 1904 Presidential Campaign (sound file) |
|
|
1904:
Gompers Calls for Action Over Cripple Creek |
|
|
1904:
The History of the Standard Oil Company - Ida M. Tarbell (full
text) |
|
|
1904:
Ideas in Conflict - Opposing Views of the Cripple Creek
Strike |
|
|
1904:
Northern Securities Company v. U. S. |
|
|
1904:
Playing for the Press- Strike Coverage by the Media |
|
|
1905:
"Chicago's Strike Ordeal" - Stanley Powers (The World's
Work,
Vol. 10) |
|
|
1905:
Constitution of the International Workers of the World |
|
|
1905:
Lochner v. New York |
|
|
1906:
The Constitution of the Industrial Workers of
the World |
|
|
1906:
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (full text) |
|
|
1907-1933: Child Labor Cartoons |
|
|
1907:
The Trial of Bill Haywood (docs.) |
|
|
1908:
Children in the Cotton Mills (photos) |
|
|
1908:
Muller v.
Oregon |
|
|
1909:
"The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand" - song lyrics (dedicated to the
Waistmakers of 1909) |
|
|
1910:
"Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad" - song lyrics |
|
|
1910:
Homestead: The
Households of a Mill Town - Margaret F. Byington
(more excerpts) |
|
|
1910s:
“Harvest Land” - A Lyrical Critique of John Farmer |
|
|
1910:
I. W. W. rally poster |
|
|
1910:
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. U. S. |
|
|
1911:
"The General Strike" - pamphlet by Bill Haywood of the I. W. W. |
|
|
1911:
Plugging the Leaks - A Specialist Spies on Union
Activities |
|
|
1911:
The Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick W. Taylor |
|
|
1911:
"Pyramid of Capitalism" -
IWW poster |
|
|
1911:
"The Trusts, the People, and the Square Deal" - editorial by Theodore
Roosevelt from The Outlook (11/18) |
|
|
1911:
View of the Ewin Breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Company - Lewis W.
Hines |
|
|
1911:
Working for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company |
|
|
1912:
"Bread and Roses"
- song lyrics by James Oppenheim describing the "Bread and Roses"
strike |
|
|
1912:
Camella Teoli Testifies about the 1912 Lawrence Textile
Strike |
|
|
1912:
“The Experiences Of A
Hired Girl,” [author unknown],The Outlook (4/6) |
|
|
1913:
Bill Haywood Remembers the 1913
Paterson Strike - On the Paterson Picket Line," International Socialist Review, 13 (June 1913): 850-851 |
|
|
1913:
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Remembers the Paterson Silk Strike |
|
|
1913:
“The Pageant as a Form of Propaganda” - Reviews of the
Paterson Strike Pageant |
|
|
1913:
The Paterson Strike Pageant Program |
|
|
1914:
American Labor Unions, By a Member - Helen Marot |
|
|
1914:
A Brief for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill |
|
|
1914:
Clayton
Anti-Trust Act |
|
|
1914:
Gallery of photo images from a Child Labor Bulletin |
|
|
1914:
The Ludlow Massacre
- Walter H. Fink |
|
|
1914:
“I Started Filling Rifles”- A Woman Strike Supporter
Remembers the 1914 Ludlow Massacre (recalled in 1974) |
|
|
1914:
“I Was Not Wanted Any Longer” - A Retail Worker Joins
the Union in 1914 and Gets Fired |
|
|
1914:
Letter to Samuel Gompers from
Josephine Casey concerning women labor
organizers |
|
|
1914:
"Mr. Coal's Story" - Child Labor Bulletin, vol. 3, Issue 2 |
|
|
1914:
One Strike Against Her - A Store Clerk Dares to Join
the Union |
|
|
1914:
"The
Story of My Cotton Dress" -
The Child Labor Bulletin
(Aug.) |
|
|
1915:
“Eight Hours in the Forenoon, Eight Hours in the
Afternoon”- An IWW Organizer Describes the Horrors of Rural Work |
|
|
1915:
In the Hot Seat - Rockefeller Testifies on Ludlow |
|
|
1915:
The People Versus the Private Army |
|
|
1915:
"The Rebel Girl" - labor song written for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
|
|
1915:
A Separate Peace - Alice Henry on Women and Unions |
|
|
1915:
"Solidarity Forever" - union song lyrics by Ralph Chaplin |
|
|
1915:
"Union Shop vs. Non-Union Shop" - testimony by Clarence Darrow
before the U.S. Senate's Commission on Industrial Relations (at the
bottom of the page) |
|
|
1916:
Final Report and
Testimony Submitted to Congress by the Commission on Industrial
Relations, 64th Cong., 1st sess., S. Doc. 415, 2 - Samuel Gompers |
|
|
1916:
Keating Owen Child Labor Act |
|
|
1916:
Scott Nearing offered
a disheartening prognosis for the social mobility of wage workers
(8/16) |
|
|
1917:
Pride and Joy - Specialists in Breaking Strikes |
|
|
1919:
Two Views of
the 1919 Steel Strike |
|
|
1925:
The
Autobiography of Mother Jones
- published by Charles Kerr |
