Lawrence Public Library

The great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, new scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike, edited by Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Jurg Siegenthaler, American University

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Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912

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edited by Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Jurg Siegenthaler, American University

Work, health, and environment series

new scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

Introduction / Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler -- "Believe comrades the day is coming when those at the end of their rope will require struggle -- it will be, perhaps, tomorrow": Franco-Belgian immigrants and the 1912 strike / Janelle Bourgeois -- The Committee of Ten: the local heroes who faced Lawrence's mill men and won in 1912 / Clarisse A. Poirier -- In harm's way: the Lawrence Textile Strike children's affair / Lawrence Cappello -- Why labor won: tactical innovation, failed repression, and turning points in the Bread and Roses Strike / Robert Biggert -- The parades: evolving views of God and country and the IWW in Lawrence / Ken Estey -- The 'American dream' and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike / Frank Fletcher -- Voices of labor militancy in Lawrence, 1912-1931 / Ethan Snow -- Striking women: Massachusetts mill workers in the wake of Bread and Roses, 1912-1913 / Anne Mattina and Domenique Ciavattone -- The Triangle Fire centennial commemoration / Adrienne Sosin and Joel Sosinsky -- The cloth from which we are cut: using music, narration, and images to tell the story of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire / Vicki Gabriner and Linda Stern -- Lessons learned: a comparison of the textile and apparel industry of early 19th-century Lawrence and Lowell with China today / Virginia M. Noon -- Bread and Roses: why the legend lives on / Robert Ross