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…just 21 years old. Vassall was very wealthy due to his sugar plantations in Jamaica. As such, he was a enslaver; his wealth came directly from enslaved labor and he…
Read More…and expert labor which was scarce in this country. The contract labor law had not been thought of, so Mr. Houghton went to England and hunted up some ten or…
Read More…a great to-do. By World War II the cuspidors had disappeared, but many laborers in our plant still chew tobacco. Soon after 1900, our catalogs included rubberized fabrics for…
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…through enslaved labor in Jamaica and enslaved people at homes and estates. Joseph and Rebecca Lee, the owners of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, were complicit in this economy. History Cambridge has…
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…Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and served as Executive Director of MIT’s Workplace Center at the Sloan School. Dr. Bookman is an affiliated faculty member at the…
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…with women’s labor history and the substantial role of Cambridge women in the workforce. In the autumn of 1911, the women workers employed by the East Cambridge Blake & Knowles…
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…gig economy and its impact on Cantabrigians. We will be joined by Professor Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and…
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…number of hours, scarcely able to obtain sufficient time to gulp down a coarse, un-nutritious noonday meal,” according to a report from the American Federation of Labor. The women had…
Read More…died in 1883 and was succeeded by his son, Edward, who continued the losing battle until labor troubles multiplied the problems to such a point that a shutdown was imperative….
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