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Video Podcast on Indentured Servants
I love this guy. In a purely platonic way. This video can also be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7_0dPzGiE How well did the indenture system work to solve the colonies’ labor shortage?
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Multicultural History of the US: After the Civil War
How immigration exploded in the US from the Civil War onward. A good review of social history, a major strand in AP US history.
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Excerpts from the “Cross of Gold” speech
Excerpts from the “Cross of Gold” Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago William Jennings Bryan July 9, 1896 Make sure you understand what is alluded to by the phrase “crown of thorns”...
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Florence Kelley on Child Labor
Florence Kelley Speaks Out on Child Labor and Woman Suffrage, Philadelphia, PA, July 22, 1905. Consider these questions as you read: 1. What are Kelley’s criticisms regarding child labor? 2. What...
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The Ludlow Massacre
In 1913, coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Co owned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (the son of the founder of Standard Oil), went on strike to protest their wages, which...
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Overview of Labor Unions in the US
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/History_of_U.S._labor_unions or http://www.unionplus.org/about/labor-unions/history-origin
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The Lowell Mill Girls
In her autobiography, Harriet Hanson Robinson, the wife of a newspaper editor, provided an account of her earlier life as female factory worker (from the age of ten in 1834 to 1848) in the textile...
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The Challenges in American Automobile Industry in the 1980s:
The Challenges in American Automobile Industry in the 1980s: Crisis, Consolidation, and Competition Originally there had been dozens if not hundreds of automobile companies in the US at the turn of the...
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Major events in US labor history
1790- The first textile mill, built in Pawtucket, RI, is staffed entirely by children under the age of 12. Lowell Mill workers (and their chaperone)1834 to 1836- Workers at the Lowell Textile Mills,...
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