Bread and Roses
Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7641294M
- ISBN-139780670033973
- ISBN-100670033979
- OCLC Control Number57039056
- OCLC Control Numberbreadrosesmillsm00bruc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004061178
- LibraryThing8012353
- Goodreads1032432
Classifications
- LCCHD5325.T4 1912 B73 2005
Description
The 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts was a watershed moment in labor history as significant as the Haymarket bombing in Chicago and the Triangle fire in New York. In a history with the narrative drive of a novel, journalist Watson provides the first full-length account of the strike that began when textile workers stormed out of the mills on a frigid January day. Despite owners' predictions to the contrary, the walkout soon became a protracted Dickensian drama that included 23,000 strikers from fifty-one nations singing as they paraded through Lawrence, bayonet-toting militiamen patrolling the streets, and the daring evacuation of the strikers' tattered and hungry children to Manhattan, where they lived with strangers and wrote loving letters to their parents on the picket line.--From publisher description.
First Sentence
The workday started with whistles.
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