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Timeline of labor in New York City

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Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932

The following is a timeline of labor in New York City from the prehistory of New York City covering the labor of the precolonial era, when the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquian Native Americans, including the Lenape, to the colonial era, under the Dutch and English, to the American Revolution to modern day New York City.[1][2][3][4]

Prehistory

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  • Algonquian communities practiced agriculture, hunting and fishing to sustain themselves.[5]

17th century

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  • 1657: Burgher rights
  • 1659: Baker's strike, concessions
  • 1661: Baker's strike, suppressed
  • 1677: Carter's strike and prosecution "for not obeying the Command and Doing their Dutyes as becomes them in their Places"
  • 1684: Carter's strike in context of Leisler's Rebellion

18th century

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19th century

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20th century

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21st century

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References

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  1. ^ Pritchard, Evan T. (2002). Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin people of New York. p. 27. ISBN 1-57178-107-2.
  2. ^ Harris, Leslie M. (2003). In the shadow of slavery : African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-31775-5. OCLC 646067953.
  3. ^ Wilentz, S (1984). Chants Democratic : New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788 - 1850. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503342-6. OCLC 1013791093.
  4. ^ Rudolph., Burns, Ric. Sanders, James, 1955- Ades, Lisa. Keane, Brian. Squires, Buddy. Moore, Allen, 1952- Stiers, David Ogden. Scorsese, Martin. Lebowitz, Fran. Guiliani (2012), New York : a documentary film., Madman Entertainment [distributor], OCLC 951528492, retrieved 2022-05-08{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Algonquin Indians". AAA Native Arts. Retrieved 2022-05-05.