"Many workmen perceived that this matter was never to be finally settles until every many should become his own employer, and consequently, almost as soon as the lock-out commended, they canvasses the project of a new foundry…  It is a most beautiful operation to a bystander, to watch the streams of liquid fire, bubbling and boiling through the pipe into a large iron receptacle, while the workmen, like Vulcans, stand ground, each waiting for his turn to obtain the fiery fluid."

Along with a cooperative grocery store and free reading room, a stove foundry was created in Troy during a lock-out when workers struck for the 8-hour day and restrictions on child labor.  44 worker-owners were employed, casting around 1,800 stoves per month.

• Text above is from Co-operation: Progress of the Idea in Troy (pdf), New York Times, 1866
• Labor and Industry in Troy and Cohoes: a brief history
• Mentioned in History of the labor movement in the United States: From colonial times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor by Philip Sheldon Foner
• Mentioned in Worker and community: response to industrialization in a nineteenth-century, Albany, New York by Brian Greenberg
• The spread of the idea from Troy to Pittsburgh

An illustration of a (non-cooperative) foundry in Troy.