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Because the true nature of the radium had been kept from them, the Radium Girls also painted their nails, teeth, and faces for fun with the deadly paint produced at the factory. [9] By 1927, more than 50 of the female factory workers had died from radium poisoning caused by the paint used. [10] Several are buried in Orange's Rosedale Cemetery. [11]
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
Postcard of American Woolen Co., Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass. Founded in 1845, Lawrence was a flourishing but deeply-troubled textile city. By 1900, mechanization and the deskilling of labor in the textile industry enabled factory owners to eliminate skilled workers and to employ large numbers of unskilled immigrant workers, mostly women.
By 1900, the 11 garment factories in Kansas City producing men’s and women’s clothing were together valued at $1.2 million. ... designers, and office workers. Men usually held positions such ...
A 1926 survey indicated that male workers in the Passaic textile mills averaged wages of from $1,000 to $1,200 per year, while female workers typically earned from $800 to $1,000 per annum. [2] Female workers worked 10 hours a day to earn this sum, with the pace of work rapid and the use of the piecework system prevalent. [2]
Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, a union for factory workers in the shoe industry, founded. [6] 1868 (Germany) The Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB)(Federation of General German Civil Servants) was founded and represented 142,000 workers. [17] 1868 (United States) First U.S. federal eight-hour law passed.
In February 1910, the NWTUL settled with the factory owners, gaining improved wages, working conditions, and hours. The end of the strike was followed only a year later by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire , which exposed the plight of immigrant women working in dangerous and difficult conditions.
The face of immigration in the early 1900s. ... While his work may have covered some hard-to-look-at topics, his photos were always visually striking. One of his lesser known projects consisted of ...