1st Edition
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
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Preface
CHAPTER 1
Introduction Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler
CHAPTER 2
“‘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
CHAPTER 3
The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence’s Mill Men and Won in 1912 Clarisse A. Poirier
CHAPTER 4
In Harm’s Way: The Lawrence Textile Strike Children’s Affair Lawrence Cappello
CHAPTER 5
Why Labor Won: Tactical Innovation, Failed Repression, and Turning Points in the Bread and Roses Strike Robert Biggert
CHAPTER 6
The Parades: Evolving Views of God and Country and the IWW in Lawrence Ken Estey
Strike Images
CHAPTER 7
The “American Dream” and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Frank Fletcher
CHAPTER 8
Voices of Labor Militancy in Lawrence, 1912–1931 Ethan Snow
CHAPTER 9
Striking Women: Massachusetts Mill Workers in the Wake of Bread and Roses, 1912–1913 Anne F. Mattina and Domenique Ciavattone
CHAPTER 10
The Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration Adrienne Sosin and Joel Sosinsky
CHAPTER 11
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
CHAPTER 12
Lessons Learned: A Comparison of the Textile and Apparel Industry of Early 19th-Century Lawrence and Lowell with China Today Virginia M. Noon
CHAPTER 13
Bread and Roses: Why the Legend Lives On Robert Ross
Editors’ Biographies
Author Biographies
Index
Biography
Forrant, Robert; Siegenthaler, Jurg; Levenstein, Charles; Wooding, John
