The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 by Blewett, Mary H.

The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870237133)

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The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 by Blewett, Mary H.

The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960

$30.95
The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 by Blewett, Mary H.

The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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Oral histories of many of the last generation of Lowell, MA, textile mill workers preceded by two introductory sections. The first presents the historic setting of economic development and subsequent decline of the textile industry in Lowell. The second is a brief explanation of the production process wherin the last generation of mill workers expended so many of their skills and so much of their energy.

Author: Mary H. Blewett
ISBN-10: 0870237136
ISBN-13: 9780870237133
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1990
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.01w x 1.04d
By Mary H. Blewett
By Mary H. Blewett
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Mary H. Blewett is Professor Emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her book Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910, won the New England Historical Association Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Award, and the Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association.

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