In this podcast episode, historian Joey DeFrancesco tells the story of the
first factory strike in US history when in 1824, young women and girls working
in the mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, organised themselves and walked out,
winning better conditions. Joey also explains how the development of
capitalist industry in the north was dependent on the labour of enslaved
people in the south.
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