I recently completed electric vehicle visits to all the sites primarily related to the Labor movement. The full story is on my ad-free blog, with links to a photo and description of each park visit: here. Labor history is full of strikes and tragedies, which caused many reforms to our laws. Still, there is a great amount to learn about the working conditions and hyper-competition among capitalists. I highly recommend visiting at least one of the mills in the northeast, a mine like Keweenaw, and the Rosie site, where you can also tour a Liberty Ship.
But here is a quick list, in case you are interested in a particular park or issue.
But here is a quick list, in case you are interested in a particular park or issue.
- Allegheny Portage: Railroad transport in Pennsylvania.
- Birmingham: Steel workers and civil rights in Alabama.
- Blackstone River Valley: Early Rhode Island textile mills & company towns.
- Cane River: Plantations and sharecropping in Louisiana.
- Cesar Chavez: Farm workers in California.
- Golden Spike: Transcontinental railroad in Utah.
- Johnstown: Company town flood in Pennsylvania.
- Keweenaw: Copper mining in Michigan.
- Klondike: Supplying gold miners in Washington.
- Lowell: Textile mills and strikes in Massachusetts.
- New Bedford Whaling: Whalers in Massachusetts.
- New River Gorge: Coal mining in West Virginia.
- Paterson Great Falls: Mills and strikes in New Jersey.
- Port Chicago: Munitions accident in California.
- Pullman: Strike in Illinois.
- Rosie the Riveter: WWII workers in California.
- Saugus Ironworks: Colonial industry in Massachusetts.
- Springfield: Guns in Massachusetts.
- Tenement Museum: Garment workers in New York.
