The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-60 (Political Thought) - Softcover

Blewett, Mary H.

 
9780870237133: The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-60 (Political Thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0870237136 ISBN 13: 9780870237133
Publisher: University Massachusetts Press, 1990

Synopsis

Oral histories of many of the last generation of Lowell, MA, textile mill workers preceded by two introductory sections. The first presents the historic setting of economic development and subsequent decline of the textile industry in Lowell. The second is a brief explanation of the production process wherin the last generation of mill workers expended so many of their skills and so much of their energy.

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About the Author

Mary H. Blewett is Professor Emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her book Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910, won the New England Historical Association Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Award, and the Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association.

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Publisher
University Massachusetts Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0870237136
ISBN 13 
9780870237133
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360

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9780870237126: The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960

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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990
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