By the 1790s—just a few years after the Constitution was ratified—craft unions representing shoemakers, printers, carpenters, shipwrights, coopers, tailors and other skilled trades had formed in major port cities including Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Many traced their origins to colonial-era mutual aid societies that provided members with assistance during illness, unemployment or death.
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