Timeline of labor in New York City
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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]
- Algonquian communities practiced agriculture, hunting and fishing to sustain themselves.[5]
17th century
- 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
- 1712: New York Slave Revolt of 1712
- 1741: Baker's strike
- 1741: New York Conspiracy of 1741
- 1768: Journeymen printers strike for "three shillings and six pence per day with diet"
19th century
- 1805: Journeymen Cordwainers, cf. Commonwealth v. Pullis
- 1825: United Tailoresses of New York
- 1827: Abolition of slavery
- 1829: Working Men's Party of New York
- 1833: General Trades Union
- 1836:
- 1849: Astor Place Riot
- National Cooperative Association of Cordwainers
- Tailor's strike
- 1863: New York City draft riots
- 1867: Central Labor Union
- 1874: Tompkins Square Park riot
- 1882: Labor Day
- 1886: United Labor Party
- 1899: Newsboys' strike