Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics is established.

It is created at the urging of George McNeill and Wendell Phillips. The agency publishes some of the first labor studies in the U.S., including an 1875 report in which McNeill declares, “I plead for the little ones. Ignorance and poverty are twin monsters, and education is a means of removing both. . . . We must work for universal education.” The agency and becomes the model of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.