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Nineteenth-century social observers were unlikely to be surprised that Troy was the home of the first continuously organized women's union.
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collar laundresses, collar sewers, collar ironers, collar laundering, women shoe stitchers, collar starcher, laundry union, collar manufacturers, women shoe workers, household economic contribution, laundry proprietors, collar laundries, women labor activists, coresident households, women compositors, collar cutters, women trade unionists, collar women, family wage ideology, equal rights tradition, iron molders, older single women, collar makers, male trade unionists, collar shops
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New York, United States, Collar Laundry Union, Troy's Irish, New England, Knights of Labor, Northern Budget, Kate Mullaney, Workingman's Advocate, Worker City, Workingmen's Assembly, Company Town, Augusta Lewis, Plain Folk, Working Women's Association, Esther Keegan, Fourth Annual Report, Great Industries, General Assembly, American-born Irish, William Sylvis, Century of Struggle, George Ide, Seven Days, Troy's Knights
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