Made in the USA: The Evolution of American Labor ... Part 2

Young boys work in a textile factory

 

           

Texas Oil Rig workers in the 1940s

A group of mill workers in North Adams, Massachusetts in 1911.

Steel worker, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Young boys working at a cigarette factory on June 6, 1911 in Danville, Virginia.

Sawmill worker in 1942

Oil Rig Worker in Louisiana

Migrant worker in Texas. 1942.

Though much of his legacy is marred by steel mill wage and safety strife, Andrew Carnegie's Steel Company was a major force in America's industrial boom. Later in his life, Carnegie devoted himself to philanthropy, building libraries and universities across the country.

Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, both Republicans, were the chief sponsors of the Norris- La Guardia Act that created an avenue for workers at the time to unionize peacefully.

Young workers in the Stearns Silk Factory in Petersburg, Virginia in 1911.

Child protesters in New York

Shots of the young workers going in to Ayer Mill
Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Young workers leave a mill at Sagamore Manufacturing Company on August 26, 1911 in Fall River, Massachusetts.

1904 Labor Day parade in Chicago