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October 28, 2026

Today in 1793
Eli Whitney submitted his patent for the cotton gin, an invention that reshaped American labor by accelerating the rise of the industrial factory system in the North and dramatically expanding the brutal plantation slavery system in the South. The fight to tame the conditions industrial labor wrought, in part, by the cotton gin, remains underway today.

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As Workers Toil in High Heat, Maryland Poised to Pass New Labor Standards
Posted On: Jun 19, 2024
June 19, 2024 | HEALTH & SAFETY | […] Climate change is helping to fuel higher temperatures every summer, with 2023 being the hottest year on record since global record keeping began in 1850. As heat advisories and watches get issued across the state, workers continue on the job. The Maryland Department of Labor is set to pass a proposed heat standard to keep them safer, but it may not come until the worst of summer heat has passed. …Just a handful of states have heat standards, and Maryland will be the first on the east coast. WYPR
 
 
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