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  • Author: Hareven, Tamara K.

Date: 1978 (1995)

Language: en

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History of the former Amoskeag mills and Manchester, New Hampshire, through the eyes and mouths of their laborers and citizens. Contains worker interviews, as well as a detailed study of mill divisions and processes. From the book jacket: "The book…

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  • Author: Eno, Arthur L. Jr.

Date: 1976

Language: en

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A collection of 14 essays on the history of Chelmsford and Lowell, Massachusetts, from pre-incorporation to industrialization, into the middle 20th century. As the title suggests, an emphasis on the prevalence of mill work and immigrants cultures…

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  • Author: Knowlton, Evelyn H. P.

Date: 1948

Language: en

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An organizational, corporate, and industrial history of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, whose Boston-run mills operated in the coastal city of Biddeford, Maine, and in the other industrial towns of Lewiston, Maine, Laconia, New Hampshire, and…

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  • Author: Dawley, Alan

Date: 1981 Autumn - 1982 Spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 8/9

Language: en

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Essay on the divisions of power and labor in industrialized American economies - more specifically, mill towns - as transformations of earlier forms of authority in America. Uses the thought-work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as well as the social…

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  • Author: Rand, John A.
  • Author: Leamon, James S.

Date: 1975

Language: en; fr

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A short history of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, published on the centennial year of the local "Peoples Savings Bank" and conceived through the lens of that financial institution. Historical content is segmented by decade, each chapter illustrated with…

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  • Author: Leamon, James S.

Date: 1976

Language: en

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The second book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: A Textile City in Transition is a 60-page overview of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine's industrial history and…

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1994

Language: en

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1979

Language: en

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From Columbia University Press: "In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes…

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  • Author: Armstrong, John Borden

Date: 1969

Language: en

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Nearly two hundred years of history in a New Hampshire town. Harrisville's businesses and communities, the production of its farms, and the centrality of its mills. The economic, political, and social transformations of Harrisville laid out…

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  • Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

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A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

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  • Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

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A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

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  • Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1979

Language: en

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Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts.…

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  • Author: Craig, Béatrice

Date: 2009

Language: en

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From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper…

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…

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  • Author: Moran, William

Date: 2002

Language: en

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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…

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  • Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin

Date: 1939 (1968)

Language: en

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A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…

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  • Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
  • Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley

Date: 1971

Language: en

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Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…

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  • Author: Dunwell, Steve

Date: 1978

Language: en

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A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…

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  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1996

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Histoire

Institution: Université de Montréal

Language: fr

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Ce texte a devenu le livre "Le Canadiens français du Michigan" (2000), ou "The French Canadians of Michigan" (2003). Du résumé: "Cette thèse a pour objet la migration des Canadiens français vers le Michigan de 1840 à 1914. Elle…

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  • Author: Finefrock, Kevin

Date: 2007

Thesis Type: B.A., History, Honors

Institution: Connecticut College

Language: en

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From the author: "In this thesis, I examine how the processes of racialization, immigration, and industrialization caused the emergence of two divergent definitions of ethnic identity in the French‐Canadian community of Québec and the…

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  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1980

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political and Social Science

Institution: New School for Social Research

Language: en; fr

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Dissertation on class development and distinction through North American industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in Rhode Island. The particularity of this history as shaped in the Franco American community's experience of Woonsocket, Rhode…

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  • Author: Scherzer, Kenneth A.

Date: 1989 February

Publication: Urban Studies

Volume: 26

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Brief essay on the Depression-era local economics of the highly industrialized and densely populated Massachusetts town of Fall River. Governmental maneuverings and business restructuring in response to the great 1930s economic downturn.

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  • Author: LeMay, Joseph A.

Date: 1980 Spring

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 10

Language: en

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Essay on hydroelectricity as an international commerce platform, with a specific focus on the relationship between Québec and New York state - the former selling hydroelectric power to the latter. The author considers the environmental and…

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  • Author: Kristofferson, Robert B.

Date: 2010

Publication: The American Historical Review

Volume: 115

Language: en

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A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2009). The reviewer, Robert Kristofferson, is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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  • Author: Craig, Beatrice

Date: 1988

Publication: Journal of Forest History

Volume: 32

Language: en

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Essay on the interconnection of agriculture and forestry, the farming and lumbering industries, their effects on one another, and their implications on population through the nineteenth century in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick.

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  • Author: Choquette, Leslie

Date: 2010 Spring

Publication: Business History Review

Volume: 84

Language: en

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A business review of Beatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada." The reviewer, Leslie Choquette, author of "Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of…

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  • Author: Bitterman, Rusty

Date: 2010 May

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

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A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2007). From Bittermann, provided by Project MUSE: "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun…

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