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E32: The Pawtucket mill strike
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Sep 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this podcast episode, historian Joey DeFrancesco tells the story of the first factory strike in US history when in 1824, young women and girls working in the mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, organised themselves and walked out, winning better conditions. Joey also explains how the development of capitalist industry in the north was dependent on the labour of enslaved people in the south.
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Full show notes this episode including links to more information, photographs and more here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/08/12/e28-the-pawtucket-mill-strike/
Released:
Sep 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (89)
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