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Textile workers, many of whom were children of Irish descent, launched the 1835 Paterson textile strike in the silk mills in Paterson, New Jersey fighting for the 11-hour day, 6 days a week. [6] 1836 (United States) National Cooperative Association of Cordwainers formed in New York City. This association was the first national union for a ...
About 1000 men were confined in a pine board prison surrounded by a 6-foot barbed wire fence patrolled by armed soldiers. Most were released within a week, but more than a hundred remained for months, and some were held until December 1899. Three workers died in the primitive conditions. [30] [31] June 10, 1900 St. Louis, MO Streetcar Strike 3 ...
It originated in India (in Lower Bengal), spreading along many shipping routes in 1846. [72] Over 15,000 people died of cholera in Mecca in 1846. [74] In Russia, between 1847 and 1851, more than one million people died in the country's epidemic. [75] A two-year outbreak began in England and Wales in 1848, and claimed 52,000 lives. [76]
If workers died or refused to work, the investment would be lost. [29] By 1620, the Virginia Company switched to selling contracts of "one hundred servants to be disposed among the old Planters" as soon as the servants reached the colonies. [30] This minimized risk on its investment to the two–three months of transatlantic voyage.
Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the 1830s but only gained momentum at the very end of the first Industrial Revolution. After many of the workers had completed the railways, they did not return to their rural lifestyles but instead remained in the cities, providing additional workers for the factories.
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3.c. 73) was introduced by Sir Robert Peel; it addressed concerns felt by the medical men of Manchester about the health and welfare of children employed in cotton mills, and first expressed by them in 1784 in a report on an outbreak of 'putrid fever' at a mill at Radcliffe owned by Peel.
In the 1840 presidential election, he was defeated by the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison and his running on a "People's Crusade" platform, despite descending from a plantation family. [17] However, his presidency would prove a non-starter when he fell ill with pneumonia and died after only a month in office.
June 6 – William Dudley Chipley, railroad tycoon and statesman (died 1897) June 14 – William F. Nast, attaché, railroad executive and inventor (died 1893) June 27 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, railroad executive (died 1916) July 10 – Esther G. Frame, Quaker minister and evangelist (died 1920)