Excerpt from Strikes in Massachusetts, 1830-1880: From the Eleventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, for 1880 The industrial progress of Massachusetts, like that of every other manufacturing community, has been marked by occasional conflicts between capital and labor. 'with the view of presenting an accurate summary of these conflicts, and, if possible, throwing some light upon their causes, results, and general effect upon the wage classes, this chapter has been prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.