Only the Greeks (48%) and the Poles (43%) rivaled the Portuguese. One of the most remarkable findings from the 1920 federal census concerns the gender composition of cotton mill workers. Unlike ...

Fifty years ago, a young, posh, boarding school-educated photographer called Daniel Meadows went to Lancashire intent of ...

A man who came across a forgotten 200-year-old story of the massacre of starving cotton workers while walking his dog has ...

Changes began in the 1850s. As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat, and tobacco increased. Entrepreneurs needed capital and a steady supply of workers for the southern mill ...

OSHA issued over 180 citations and millions in fines to this Alabama sawmill, the deadliest workplace in America, but it kept operating.

The Convention of the United Textile Workers of America, which will meet in this city on Oct. 20, will devote a great deal of its time to the discussion of unionizing cotton-mill labor in the South.

By Robert Sullivan [email protected] SALISBURY — In the coming years, the site of the former Kesler Cotton ...

Kane visited the Boot Cotton Mills in Lowell on Friday and he had to wear ear plugs in his German Shepherd ears. He could not believe the loud sound of the Power Looms running as part of a ...