Bread and roses : mills, migrants, and the struggle for the American dream /

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 th...

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Main Author: Watson, Bruce, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2005]
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