{"product_id":"the-great-lawrence-textile-strike-of-1912-9780895038616","title":"The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. Thus begins the federal government''s Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story''s retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united working class can be. The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - was a public protest by 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a wage cut. Backed by skillful neighborhood organizing, supported by hundreds of acts of solidarity, and unified by a commitment to respect every striker''s nationality and language, the walkout spread across the city''s densely packed tenements. Defying the assumptions of mill owners and conservative trade unionists alike that largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be organized, the women a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Robert Forrant and Jurg Siegenthaler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003e“‘Believe Comrades . . . the Day is Coming When Those at the End of Their Rope Will Require Struggle. It Will Be, Perhaps, Tomorrow.’ \u003cbr\u003eFranco-Belgian Immigrants and the 1912 Strike” Janelle Bourgeois\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003e The Committee of Ten: The Local Heroes Who Faced Lawrence’s Mill Men and Won in 1912 Clarisse A. Poirier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003e In Harm’s Way: The Lawrence Textile Strike Children’s Affair Lawrence Cappello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003e Why Labor Won: Tactical Innovation, Failed Repression, and Turning Points in the Bread and Roses Strike Robert Biggert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003e The Parades: Evolving Views of God and Country and the IWW in Lawrence Ken Estey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Strike Images \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003e The “American Dream” and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Frank Fletcher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003e Voices of Labor Militancy in Lawrence, 1912–1931 Ethan Snow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003e Striking Women: Massachusetts Mill Workers in the Wake of Bread and Roses, 1912–1913 Anne F. Mattina and Domenique Ciavattone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003e The Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration Adrienne Sosin and Joel Sosinsky \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 11\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 12\u003cbr\u003e Lessons Learned: A Comparison of the Textile and Apparel Industry of Early 19th-Century Lawrence and Lowell with China Today Virginia M. Noon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHAPTER 13\u003cbr\u003e Bread and Roses: Why the Legend Lives On Robert Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Editors’ Biographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Author Biographies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baywood Publishing Company Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577727357271,"sku":"9780895038616","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780895038616.jpg?v=1746096375","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-lawrence-textile-strike-of-1912-9780895038616","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}