How did testimony such as this from the triangle shirtwaist factory disaster affect the workplace?

by creating a labor shortage that pushed the continent toward a market economy

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

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immigrants from northern and western europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers