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