200 Years of American WorklifeU.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1977 - Government publications - 192 pages |
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American workers artisans became began bill Boston Bureau of Labor called carpenters century coal colonial Committee Continental Congress cordwainers craft craft unions created decade deferments demand Department of Labor Depression economic efforts employers employment factory Federal Government Frances Perkins Gompers House immigrants increased industry Jackson John journeymen Knights of Labor labor force labor movement Lewis Library of Congress living major manufacturing Massachusetts master mechanicks ment million miners Mollies Molly Maguires Mother Jones National nomic organization percent Philadelphia policies political President production programs railroad Roosevelt schools Secretary of Labor Selective Service Selective Service System Senate sitdowns skilled slavery slaves social society Spirit of 76 steel strike tailoresses tion took trade U.S. Steel unemployed union United Mine Workers wages Willard Wilson women Workingmen's Party World York City
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Page 21 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 98 - Twenty-one million times are those sledges to be swung — twenty-one million times are they to come down with their sharp punctuation, before the great work of modern America is complete...
Page 52 - Men with their families -wives, sons, and daughters -work for themselves, on their farms, in their houses, and in their shops, taking the whole product to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand, nor of hired laborers or slaves on the other.
Page 104 - I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Page 12 - American Revolution with those of the late American War. The American War is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.
Page 132 - In the execution of that purpose the element of fairness to every interest is of equal importance, and the Department has in fact made fairness between wage earner and wage earner, between wage earner and employer, between employer and employer, and between each and the public as a whole the supreme motive and purpose of its activities.
Page 98 - A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos until it is clear of the car. They come forward at a run. At the word of command, the rail is dropped...
Page 98 - ... track to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again ; and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of 60 or 80 feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously.
Page 115 - The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for — not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country, and upon the successful Management of which so much depends.
Page 152 - President's cabinet; and in the public press of this nation — not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.