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• This Day in Labor History: May 12, 1902

  
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  On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special significance because the refusal of the industry to negotiate pushed the strike into the fall and placed urban Americans’ heating supplies in ...
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• For The Wealthy It’s Never Enough

  
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  On AcquisitionLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in ...
  1 week ago

• The Greatest Beard in American History

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 147
  The title for greatest beard in American history goes to one Peter Cooper, 1876 Greenback Party candidate for president. I don’t see how the competition for this title even comes close. Not sure when the picture was taken but Cooper died in 1883.
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• This Day in Labor History: May 6, 1882

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 147
  On May 6, 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Although not often seen by the general public as part of our labor history, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first legislative victory for organized labor in this country. It generated out of the discontent of white labor in the American ...
  1 week ago

• Links for Industrialization and Urbanization

  
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  Bobbin boys and other child laborers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_boy Cartoon about child labor: Child labor devours its victim The Great Chicago Fire and its impact: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1854.html Jane Addams and Hull House: http://www.hullhouse.org/aboutus/history.html Grace Hill ...
  1 week ago

• Duchess (Daughters of Fortune) by Susan May Warren

  
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  I received a portion of this product free for the purpose of reviewing it. See full disclosure at close of post or read my disclosure policy for more details. *Thanks to Summerside Press on behalf of Litfuse Publicity for providing material for review.* Duchess by Susan May Warren Daughters of ...
  2 weeks ago

• My tour of Rosemount Manor (with kids)

  
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  In early March of this year, I toured the Rosemount Museum in Pueblo, Colorado – about 45 minutes from where I currently live. Rosemount is a historic mansion that has been exceedingly well preserved as an old house museum. I visited with Lupe and my two kids and we were treated to a personal tour from a very ...
  2 weeks ago

• Workplace Safety and the Gilded Age Theory of Risk

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 147
  Matt Yglesias had an odd response to my post yesterday calling for American corporations to be held to American labor standards no matter where in the world they site their plants or whether they subcontract the work out . Yglesias said that less safe conditions in poorer countries was OK and in fact helped the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The moral contours of our new Gilded Age

  
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  When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio announced his papal name, he stoked hopes for a season of reform in the spirit of  St. Francis . In the weeks since, the Argentinian pontiff, who was shaped in part by his  experiences in Buenos Aires’  villas miserias , has not disappointed.  Pope Francis has garnered ...
  3 weeks ago

• Above the Fray: The Gilded Age sample sale begins...

  
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  The Gilded Age sample sale begins today, and the early word from inside is that the selections pretty good. Most of tops are size mediums and the pants mostly 32s, but theres a wide range of other sizes mixed in. Tees are $20 , shorts are $50 , and jeans are $70 to $85 . [Sample Sally; Dealfeed ]
  4 weeks ago

• Review: Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman

  
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  Love at Any Cost  (The Heart of San Francisco #1) By: Julie Lessman Publisher: Revell ISBN: 978-0-8007-2167-1 Review: In the summer of 1902, Cassidy McClare packs her bags and heads west from Humble, Texas, to the glittering lights of San Francisco, hoping a summer with her beloved aunt and cousins will help ...
  4 weeks ago

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