Today in 1831 Baltimore seamstresses went on strike. While not a epoch-changing event in American labor history, it is a good moment to get into the everyday drudgery and struggles of urban antebellum white women workers, issues that are a lot more important in the lives of the working-class than brief revolutionary moments that capture the romantic attention of modern radicals. That’s particularly true to understand white women’s labor, a group of workers often left out of our popular discussions of labor history. Learn more.
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