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Whether it was the mill girls in Lowell, Massachusetts, who created the first women’s worker union, the garment workers who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and started the women’s ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

Dark, unventilated buildings created brutal working ... Eventually, mills shortened the days to 11 hours. Though the demographics of Lowell and its labor movement began to shift toward the end ...

But as the energy transition faded from the front of investors’ minds amid inflation, war and a cost-of-living crisis, gold made its return. In mining, if orange was the new black, then gold is the ...

Just as obsolete are most conventional notions about teen agers, a word invented in the U.S. and popularized ... The crowd at San Francisco’s Lowell High School, where students say there were ...

We created the package for use by fisheries scientists ... upper_dover = 0.9215, browns_mills = NA, sebec = NA, milo = NA, howland = 1, lowell = NA, stillwater = 0.96, milford = 0.96, great_works = 1, ...