The year 1825 saw not just celebrations in the streets, but also a push by Boston carpenters to have their workday limited to ten hours, and a strike among women tailors in New York—America’s first industrial action by female workers, preceding even those at Lowell. The practices of “outworking” that had been pioneered by the master shoemakers of Lynn were now advancing into many other trades. The word sweatshop entered American parlance.
