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Forrant, Dr Robert; Grabski, Susan

 
9780738599397: Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike (Images of America)
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ISBN 10: 0738599395 ISBN 13: 9780738599397
Editorial: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2013

Sinopsis

Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New England's planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate power, by 1912 Lawrence led the world in the production of worsted wool cloth. The Pacific Cotton Mills alone had sales of nearly $10 million and had mechanical equipment capable of producing 800 miles of finished textile fabrics every working day. However, industrial growth was accompanied by worsening health, housing, and working conditions for most of the city's workers. These were the root causes that led to the long, sometimes violent struggle between people of diverse ethnic groups and languages and the city's mill owners and overseers. The 1912 strike--known today as the Bread and Roses Strike--became a landmark moment in history.

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Dr. Robert Forrant is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Susan Grabski is the executive director of the Lawrence History Center. Founded in 1978, the organization's mission is to collect, preserve, share, and interpret the history and heritage of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and its people.

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ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Año de publicación
2013
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0738599395
ISBN 13 
9780738599397
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Número de páginas
127
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