Holyoke, Massachusetts : A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America

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Holyoke, Massachusetts : A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America

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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, covers also the first three decades of the twentieth century and the saddening economic decline that led to Holyoke's engagement with businesses on the state and federal levels. A case study in New England mill-town economic transition.

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Green, Constance McLaughlin

Publisher

Yale University Press

Date

1939 (1968)

Language

en

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1850-1939; Holyoke, Massachusetts

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425

Place

New Haven, Connecticut

Publisher

Yale University Press

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