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LABOR AND INDUSTRY IN TROY AND COHOES: A BRIEF HISTORY |
 | | In becoming industrial workers and part of a highly industrialized community, their days were now ruled by clocks and the hum of machinery. |
 | | They were full-time permanent employees in the collar and textile industries, housekeepers, part-time employees in many local industries—prior to marriage and often after as well, boarding house managers, industrial homeworkers, and a dominant part of the clerical workforce in the 20th century. |
 | | The collar industry workers, at least 85 percent female, assembled, stitched, finished, washed, starched, laundered, and ironed millions of collars during the nearly century-long history of the industry. |
| www.albany.edu /history/Troy-Cohoes (6569 words) |
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