North Adams strike

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Men brought in to break the strike
Date 1870
Location
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Goals Eight-hour day
Methods Strikes, Protest, Demonstrations
Resulted in Chinese immigrants brought in from California, replacing union workers for cheaper wages
Parties to the civil conflict
Mill management
Lead figures
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Non-centralized leadership

Units involved
Number
Casualties and losses
Arrests: 2
Arrests

The North Adams strike was a strike in 1870 by shoe workers of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The strike itself was broken when Sampson imported seventy-five unskilled male Chinese strikebreakers, from California.

Legacy

The craft union itself was eventually defeated by mechanization, although a decade later only five immigrants remained in North Adams. Those that did move out eventually moved to Boston to found their Chinatown. The United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, further restricting immigration to the country and continuing the gender imbalance that started with the laborers for many years to come.[1][2][3]

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