Working Disasters by Tucker Eric;

Author:Tucker, Eric;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Millhands at the NewMarket Manufacturing Company in New Hampshire evinced a keen understanding of the imperative of earning a living wage. After extending “their heartfelt sympathy” to the disaster victims, the Granite State operatives articulated the argument that would animate postbellum campaigns for employers’ liability reform and workmen’s compensation. They wrote, “Knowing that sympathy is of little avail, unless accompanied by substantial aid, … we enclose … the amount of one day’s pay for the benefit of the Lawrence sufferers.”129

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