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			1832 Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England"

1837 For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor.

			1840 Agitation for Ten-hour Day

1870 French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns

			1886 Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago

1890 Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles

			1894 Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard

1912 Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
			1912 Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities

1924 First of New England textile mills moves south

			1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed

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