Little Rock Mechanics Association

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The Little Rock Mechanics Association was established by manufacturers and skilled artisans in 1839. The association struck for improvements in wages and working hours, and opposed the industrial efforts of prisoners at the local Arkansas State Penitentiary.

References

  • Ira Don Richards, Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century (1969), 39.

External links

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