Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike

Author: Robert Forrant

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439643849

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Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New Englands planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate power, by 1912 Lawrence led the world in the production of worsted wool cloth. The Pacific Cotton Mills alone had sales of nearly $10 million and had mechanical equipment capable of producing 800 miles of finished textile fabrics every working day. However, industrial growth was accompanied by worsening health, housing, and working conditions for most of the citys workers. These were the root causes that led to the long, sometimes violent struggle between people of diverse ethnic groups and languages and the citys mill owners and overseers. The 1912 strikeknown today as the Bread and Roses Strikebecame a landmark moment in history.

Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass;, In 1912 (Classic Reprint)
Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass;, In 1912 (Classic Reprint)

Author: United States Bureau Of Labor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780656918980

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Excerpt from Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass;, In 1912 The textile strike in Lawrence and the conditions which followed were not primarily due to any condition peculiar to Lawrence. The general conditions of the industry in Lawrence are more or less typical of the textile industry in all of the large distinctly textile towns, and the strike in Lawrence and the conditions attending it might just as easily have occurred in any other of these towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass., in 1912
Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Mass., in 1912

Author: United States Bureau of Labor

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-07

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9781355921080

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Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses

Author: Bruce Watson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-07-25

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 144064926X

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On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted murder trial that tested the boundaries of free speech. A rousing look at a seminal and overlooked chapter of the past, Bread and Roses is indispensable reading.

Radicals of the Worst Sort
Radicals of the Worst Sort

Author: Ardis Cameron

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780252063183

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Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence. She shows clearly that the working women who unionized and fought for equality were considered the "worst sort" because they challenged both economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women.

Immigrant City
Immigrant City

Author: Donald Cole

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780807854082

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The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City<

Bread and Roses, Too
Bread and Roses, Too

Author: Katherine Paterson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0547488750

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2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Rosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs, and Rosa is terrified that her mother and older sister, Anna, are endangering their lives by marching against the corrupt mill owners. After all, didn’t Miss Finch tell the class that the strikers are nothing but rabble-rousers—an uneducated, violent mob? Suppose Mamma and Anna are jailed or, worse, killed? What will happen to Rosa and little Ricci? When Rosa is sent to Vermont with other children to live with strangers until the strike is over, she fears she will never see her family again. Then, on the train, a boy begs her to pretend that he is her brother. Alone and far from home, she agrees to protect him . . . even though she suspects that he is hiding some terrible secret. From a beloved, award-winning author, here is a moving story based on real events surrounding an infamous 1912 strike.