1912 Lawrence Textile Strike

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1912

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42.71° N, 71.16° W

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1912 textile workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts

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Labor strike in Massachusetts, U.S.

The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike action of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Prompted by a two-hour pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the workweek for women, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers and involving nearly every mill in Lawre…

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