Belles of New England The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove

Name: Belles of New England The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
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ISBN: 9780312326005

ISBN-10: 0312326009

ISBN-13: 9780312326005

Edition: Revised

Authors: William Moran

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This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge. The early mills were an experiment in benevolent enlightened social responsibility on the part of the wealthy owners, who belonged to many of Boston's finest families. But the fledgling industry's ever-increasing profits were inextricably bound to the issues of slavery, immigration, and workers' rights. William Moran brings a newsman's eye for the telling detail to this fascinating saga that is equally compelling…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 3/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments



A Place in the Universe The ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lowell brings large-scale textile manufacturing to New England


Generations of native-born Americans and immigrants find jobs in the mills



Glory of the Nation From the rocky farmland and tranquil villages of New England, women migrate to the mill towns to take their place in the history of the American labor movement



The Lords of the Loom Business leaders in Boston expand the textile industry, accumulate great wealth, and ignite a fierce debate over the morality of using


Southern slaves to provide the cotton that feeds the mills



From Across the Irish Sea Irish laborers build the mills, the Irish famine victims of the mid-nineteenth century replace the Yankee women at the looms



Voyagers South The ethnic character of New England is changed forever as the French


Canadians of Quebec cross the border to seek opportunity in America



Wretched Refuse Poles, Italians, Russians, Jews, and many others weary of Europe's nineteenth-century wars and poverty join


The workforce in the New England mills



Fighting for Roses Immigrant women lead the great 1912


Textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the women win



Last Bells The shift of textile manufacturing to the South destroys the industry in New England


Notes


Bibliography


Index