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- Author: Blewett, Mary H.
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 42772687
Find Online: OL8605279M
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Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in…
- Author: Walkowitz, Daniel
Date: 1978
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4003426
Find Online: OL4730176M
A history of the growth of nineteenth-century labor movements in the neighboring industrial cities of Troy and Cohoes, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. The labor and market conditions, social contexts, and events specific to each city that…
- Author: Silvia, Philip T., Jr.
Date: 1975 spring
Publication: Labor History
Volume: 16
Language: en
Textile workers in post-Civil-War-era Fall River, Massachusetts. The rapid economic and demographic growth of a city that would become New England's largest center for manufacturing. Immigrant worker diversity and some realities of their Fall River…
- Author: Hareven, Tamara K.
Date: 1975 spring
Publication: Labor History
Volume: 16
Language: en
An essay on how Manchester, New Hampshire, mill workers "[adapted] to industrial conditions" in the early twentieth century, taking special consideration for the relationships between work, ethnicity, family, and their influences upon one another…