It is difficult for the twenty-first century mind to grasp the endless drudgery of the daily lives of nineteenth century workers, especially the masses of the poor, and particularly women. While the status of mother or wife was better than that of domestic servant, there was little else separating them from the constant toil of Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: ‘Labor’s True Woman’ – Leonora Barry
Posted in: Digital Scholar Bytes The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Blogs, Humanities, John W. Hayes, Knights of Labor, New York, Pennsylvania, Temperance, Terence V. Powderly, University Archives, Women Workers, Women's History, Women's Suffrage | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: John Brophy – A Pennsylvania Miner’s Life
Even though he had impacted the lives of generations of my family who labored in the coal mines of England, Scotland, and Pennsylvania, John Brophy is the most important labor leader nobody knows. I certainly did not before I deposited myself in the Catholic University Archives, home of Brophy’s Papers, in 1989. Among mining families, Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Blogs, Clearfield County, coal miners, Congress of Industrial Organizations, John L. Lewis, labor history, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Miner's Hospital, Pennsylvania, Phillip Murray, United Mine Workers of America, University Archives | Comment