For years, The Tenement Museum in New York City's Lower East Side has become a living monument to the stories of 19th and early 20th-century working-class New Yorkers. The museum is housed in a ...

The Biden administration was staunchly pro-labor, subsidized Obamacare and managed to avoid a recession. But Trump and Republicans sold resentment, and it worked.

Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century We have no big money backers. We rely on sales and donations to keep us going. If you appreciate the socialist analysis and debate on this ...

As Britain became an increasingly industrial nation in the 19th century ... Pip begins the novel as a poor blacksmith's apprentice (working class). Thanks to Magwitch's help, he is developed ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... Meanwhile, industrialization also forced free women in northern working-class households to labor for cash, as street vendors, tavern ...

Eighteenth-century Quaker women exercised ... generally middle or upper class, tended to ignore the increasing poverty of the working class and the emerging industrialism of America, but their ...

Towns and cities experienced unprecedented growth from the late 18th century ... middle-class people whose living conditions were much more pleasant and spacious than the working-class districts.

More than half of the community’s founding pioneers were women, most of whom were typical upper class, 19th-century wives and ...

The use of national tariffs in the US began in 1791, led by Alexander Hamilton, and grew throughout the 19th century, in what ...

Almost nothing was known of the composition of substances of vegetable or animal origin, that great and important class ... nineteenth century opened, there were, however, certain men at work ...

Outputs by these writers were read alongside a variety of other genres, including travel writings, learned society reports, statistical returns, popular journalism, working-class writing ... read ...