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Child Labour 1750-1850 Extensive treatment of the topic, from the Encyclopaedia of British History. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm Child Labor Article about child labor in the 19th century by David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College. http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html Address of August Spies Statement in court prior to being sentenced to hang for his role in the alleged Haymarket Conspiracy. http://www.wfu.edu/users/zulick/341/spies.html Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Building Transcript of the GVSHP's testimony before the Landmarks Preservation Commission advocating the designation of the Brown building (formerly the Asch building), site of the Triangle fire, as a historical landmark. http://www.preserve.org/gvshp/triangleshirtwaist.htm The Merger of the AFL and CIO The constitution of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations created after the merger. http://members.tripod.com/Norrit1/afl-cio/afl-cio.htm Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Accounts of the culture of coal mining from the 1860s through the early 1900s. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/Lessons_US /Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial A collection of primary documents such as safety codes, newspaper accounts, and testimony, as well as victim lists, trial excerpts and summations, and images related to the trial following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/tr ianglefire.html |
