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01/08/1864 |
O’Sullivan (Mary Kenney) is born in Hannibal, Missouri. |
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01/23/1869 |
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor is established. |
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06/23/1869 |
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics is established. |
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09/02/1869 |
Boston Eight-Hour League is established. |
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03/02/1870 |
Six women are killed in a fire at McBride’s Cotton Drying works. |
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1874 |
Ten Hour Day is adopted in Massachusetts. |
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07/14/1878 |
Boston Central Labor Union is established. |
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12/31/1879 |
Some 550 labor strikes take place in Boston during the 1870s. |
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04/10/1880 |
Perkins (Frances) is born in the South End. |
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05/01/1882 |
Newsboys and Bootblacks Reading-Room opens. |
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