LABOR & INDUSTRY HISTORY

LABOR & INDUSTRY HISTORY
An Internet Hotlist on LABOR & INDUSTRY HISTORY

created by Marilyn Abramowitz
Mineola High School Library

Introduction
Consult the library's print resources and online databases. Find additional information in these links.

The Internet Resources

US Industrial Revolution & Labor History

American Immigration During the Industrial Revolution -
American Industrialization -
American Labor: 1830s-Present -
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -
Effect of Industrial Revolution on Factory Workers -
Illinois During the Gilded Age - Chicago Labor History
Industrialization and Reform -
Labor Films - motion pictures with labor themes
Labor History Links -
Rise of Industrial America - work in the late 19th century
The Industrial Revolution & the Progressive Era: 1877-1913 -
U.S. Labor & Industrial History Audio Archive -
US Labor (AFL-CIO) History -
Who Built America? -

Activism & Reformers in US (Strikes, Unions, Leaders)

Women Workers & Child Labor in US

A Study of the Early History of Child Labor in America -
Child Labor in America -
Child Labor in NYC Tenements -
Documentation of Child Labor -
Lowell Mill Girls & the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Unrest -
Lowell Mill-Girls - many links that show how the factory system affected gender roles and changed the lives of men, women, and children
Newsboys - 'Devils in Training' -
The Story of a Sweatshop Girl -
The Triangle Factory Fire -
The Woman's Trade Union League -
Women Working: 1800-1930 -
Worker Worlds in Antebellum America - info on Lowell Mills and the factory girls

American Industrialists

Industrial Revolution in Gt Britain

Blackburn, Cotton and The Industrial Revolution -
Factory Children - the conditions of labor in 1832
First & Second Industrial Revolutions -
Industrial Revolution - Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Factory Act of 1833 - to regulate the labor of children & young persons in the mills & factories of the United Kingdom
The Industrial Revolution -
The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England -
The Plight of Womens' Work in the Early Industrial Revolution - in England & Wales

Inventors & Inventions

Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone -
American Inventors & Inventions -
Charles Babbage - 'Father of Computing'
Eli Whitney - The Cotton Gin -
Elias Howe : Inventor of the Sewing Machine -
Forgotten Inventors -
George Washington Carver - invented peanut butter and 400 plant products
Great Inventions of the Gilded Age -
Greatest Inventions: Inventors -
Guglielmo Marconi: The 'Father of Radio' -
Henry Ford - built a gasoline engine, and within a few years, an automobile
Industrialism: Inventions -
James Watt - rotary-motion steam engine
John Fitch: Inventor of the Steamboat -
Nikola Tesla: Inventor, 1856 - 1943 - developed the first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, the turbine engine and many other devices
Richard Arkwright, Cotton King -
Robert Fulton: Engineer and Artist - Constructs and operates the submarine, then turned his attention to steam navigation
Samuel Morse - Morse Code on the Telegraph
Sir Henry Bessemer - developed the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively
The History of the First Locomotives in America -
The Invention of the Steam Engine -
The Wright Brothers - Wilbur & Orville - the first successful airplane
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) -

Content by Marilyn Abramowitz, mabramowitz@mineola.k12.ny.us
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listlaborma.html
Last revised Fri Nov 20 10:21:04 US/Pacific 2009