The Golden Threads: New England's Mill Girls and Magnates. This item is unavailable.The Golden Threads: New England's Mill Girls and Magnates

Study of New England textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, where, from about 1822 to 1850, the young women who worked there we able to achieve remarkable self-improvement during off hours. Towards the end of that time, market forces shifted to bring an end to the unusual conditions that allowed such prosperity. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing) with I on copyright page. Light wear to book, head of spine bumped; jacket lightly rubbed & tanned with minor chipping, but tape mend to rear panel both inside & out; page 127/8 with long crease; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; ix, blank, 325 pages; bibliography, index. Size: Octavo.