Worker City, Company Town: Troy and Cohoes in the 1800s

"Rising Worker Power in Troy and Cohoes in the 1800s" will be the topic discussed by Carole Turbin, author of "Working Women of the Collare City, Gender, Class, and Community," and Daniel Walkowitz, author of "Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84" Turbin will discuss how Troy's laundresses were able to organize America's first bona fide all-female union in 1864 winning better pay and safer working conditions in Troy's emerging collar and cuff industry in alliance with male labor activists..  Walkowitz will show how social, political and economic contrasts created opposing repsonses to management repression and control in Troy and Cohoes.

Artists / Speakers: Carole Turbin's book is the definitive study of Kate Mullany amd her colleagues battle for imroved working condistions. Danny Walkowitz' book is a study of the ways in which labor and capital helped to shape the environment of manufacturing centers just wo miles apart..o

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