The Michigan State Economic Record
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 60
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michigan Historical Commission. Archives
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Michigan. Bureau of Business Research
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michigan. State University, East Lansing. Bureau of Business and Economics Research
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 95
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phyllis Michael Wong
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1628954523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor.
Author: James R. Anderson
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2020-11-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1628954132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication makes available to historians and general readers a little-known document mapping the achievement of a crucial initiative in the plans for recovery from the harshest blows of the Great Depression, in one of America’s hardest-hit states. It presents a historically unique case history of the Federal Civil Works Administration, established by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The CWA addressed the issues of unemployment and destitution brought on by the Depression, specifically in Michigan. With a contextualizing introduction and afterword by historian James R. Anderson, the republication of this report—with its wealth of data and statistics, and its compelling information about the extent of the crisis and of the government’s initiatives—brings to light fascinating aspects of how critical (and impactful) such interventions were in the context of unprecedented economic challenges.
Author: Susan Stein-Roggenbuck
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 274
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Coskun Samli
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 492
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