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This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union
List of Non-Union Shops
This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union
Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union
Bread-baking is a hard, physically demanding job. Before the Civil War, most bakery owners relied on apprenticeships and enslaved laborers to handle the workload. Postbellum bakery workers inherited a system of forced on-premises lodging, 16 to…