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

Blewett, Mary H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870237136 ISBN 13 : 9780870237133

Editeur : University of 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870237136
• ISBN 13: 9780870237133
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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