- rapid rivers provide a early power source for engines “steam” - Seaports access to get raw materials – - markets- (pop) shipping provided Capital $$$ Lowell Mills****…in Ex: Mass. * girls come off the farms, live in dormitories chaperoned by older women, work 80 hrs a week…Sunday Church…”Lowell System”…become 1st strikers, forming labor in Mass. wins 1st case to allow for unions unions by 1820’s… nationwide…Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1840…. only state to make labor unions legal at the time. Labor Unions to come after the Civil War in a big way. End Part 1
- rapid rivers provide a early power source for “steam” engines - Seaports – access to get raw materials - markets- (pop) shipping provided Capital $$$ Ex: Lowell Mills****…in Mass. * girls come off the farms, live in dormitories chaperoned by older women, work 80 hrs a week…Sunday Church…”Lowell System”…become 1st strikers, forming labor unions by 1820’s… in Mass. wins 1st case to allow for unions nationwide…Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1840…. only state to make labor unions legal at the time. Labor Unions to come after the Civil War in a big way. End Part 1
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