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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Bruce, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2005]
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Textile industry > Massachusetts > Lawrence > History.
Table of Contents:
  • For two hours' pay
  • Immigrant city
  • The battle of the Merrimack
  • Stars, stripes, and bayonets
  • Dynamite
  • Spinning out of control
  • A nation divided
  • The children's exodus
  • Crackdown
  • In Congress, 1912
  • An American tapestry
  • "The flag of liberty is here".