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…labor force to care for their children. Women of color, and Black women in particular, have historically had much higher levels of labor force participation when compared with white women,…
Read More…share the stories of all Cantabrigians. Our theme for 2022 was “Who Are Cambridge Workers?” Many of our programs focused on the history of labor in the city, but we…
Read More…Who’s Who in America, 2003-04. 35. For quotes and a much more detailed account, see the excellent essay “Fair Harvard? Labor, Law, and Gender in the Harvard Scrubwomen Case,” by…
Read More…of listening; we know we did! Listening is Emotional Labor: For History and Culture Workers Hooper-Lee-Nichols House | Cambridge Historical Society | 159 Brattle Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday,…
Read More…soldiers, these ordinary Cantabrigians provided the crucial labor that kept the army and the diplomatic corps running and allowed the Revolutionary leadership to focus on “big picture” concerns. History Cambridge…
Read More…but this would not disturb the Blake & Knowles pump works. There might be a labor disturbance in the plant of the Boston Woven Hose company, but the production of…
Read More…labor organization in the city and the current state of unions in the wake of the recent dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism. We were joined by representatives from…
Read More…labor. British colonists brought their ideas about caring for those needing material support with them from their homeland, and their approach to providing for orphans, paupers, the elderly and those…
Read More…a result of her position as the senior sibling in the family. According to the U.S. Census, her father was a railroad laborer (1930) and then an ironworker (1940), and…
Read More…we will discuss on the tour are all white. Many of their families owned plantations in the Caribbean and profited from enslaved labor both there and in Massachusetts. There were…
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