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Labour History Research Index
Center for research into labour history; site features include annotated link directory, research tools, and guide to libraries and archive collections.
http://www.qbradley.freeserve.co.uk/
Labor Arts
Virtual museum exhibiting and cataloging the art of the labor movement and working people. Collections include parades, cartoon art on labor themes, and buttons and badges.
http://www.laborarts.org/
Smithsonian Magazine: Hell's Bells
Includes several articles on labor conditions in the 19th century.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/may02/object.html
Child Labour 1750-1850
Extensive treatment of the topic, from the Encyclopaedia of British History.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
Bread and Roses: The Lost Histories of a Slogan and a Poem
Long thought to have been inspired by the 1912 strike by textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, James Oppenheim's poem was actually inspired by earlier labor struggles.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/bread_and_roses_history.html
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