| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1832 | | Seth Luther, "An Address to the Working-Men of New England" | | labor, women's work |
| 1837 | | For women, rural outwork is the dominant form of wage labor. | A Massachusetts census shows that almost half of wage workers were braiding palm-leaf and straw for hats. | women's work. |
| 1840 | | Agitation for Ten-hour Day | | labor |
| 1870 | | French-Canadian workers fill Northern N.E. mill towns | | labor, economy, immigration |
| 1886 | | Police kill strikers at Haymarket in Chicago | A Chicago Historical Society website lays out the evidence. | labor |
| 1890 | | Fall River surpasses Lowell as largest producer of printed textiles | | labor, economy |
| 1894 | | Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard | | labor, population |
| 1912 | | Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts | For photos and original documents provided by the SUNY-Binghamtom, "Women and Social Movements" Web site see, "The 1912 Lawrence Strike: How Did Immigrant Workers Struggle to Achieve an American Standard of Living?" | labor, economy |
| 1912 | | Workers at Lowell live in ethnic communities | | immigration, labor |
| 1924 | | First of New England textile mills moves south | | labor, economy |
| 1927 | | Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti executed | | labor |
