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Despite owners’ predictions to the contrary, the walkout soon became a protracted Dickensian drama that included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one nations singing as they paraded through Lawrence, bayonet-toting militiamen patrolling the streets, and the daring evacuation of the strikers’ tattered and hungry children to Manhattan, wh

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

  • Title : Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
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  • Rating : 4.50 (597 Vote)
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  • Format : Hardcover
  • Pages : 352 Pages
  • Asin : 0670033979
  • Language : English

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Despite owners’ predictions to the contrary, the walkout soon became a protracted Dickensian drama that included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one nations singing as they paraded through Lawrence, bayonet-toting militiamen patrolling the streets, and the daring evacuation of the strikers’ tattered and hungry children to Manhattan, where they lived with strangers and wrote loving letters to their parents on the picket line. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Bread and Roses is vividly narrated and teeming with colorful characters—including rags-to-riches mill owner William Wood and radical labor leader "Big Bill" Haywood. In Bread and Roses, veteran journalist Bruce Watson provides a long-overdue account of the strike that began when textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence on a frigid January day. A rousing history with the narrative drive of a novel, Bread and Roses is the true-to-life tale of a strike that became the fabric of a community and an inspiration to workers around the world.. The 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts was a watershed moment in labor history as significant as the Haymarket bombing in Chicago and the Triangle fire in New York

The bloody strike was repressed from public memory in the hyperpatriotic years of WWI, later idealized by the labor movement in ways that downplayed union violence. . (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This book's subtitle, and its contents, suggest that the "American Dream" enjoyed by the nation's middle class had to be taken by force by the working class and is by no means a permanent entitlement. The story of how a polyglot mass of immigrants hailing from Syria to Scotland cohered into a powerful bargaining force is riveting in itself, and Watson (The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made) places that struggle within the larger currents of reform that were slowly reshaping America. From Publishers Weekly Well sourced, evenhanded and briskly paced, Watson's account of the dramatic textile mill strike in Lawrence, Mass., during the icy winter of 1912 presents a panoramic glimpse of a half-forgotten America, one in which violent agitation and swift repression were ofte

A bit repetitive with not as much info I was hoping for. The descriptions of Provence, it's culture and scenery, came alive for me. These were not just to save a bird species, but a large recreational lake, a way of life and the residents livelihood. We need more people like Bruce Watson. Gave up about halfway through. a real joy to see all these cars. The US, to Soros, should be more involved in policing the world (p.179- one of many examples) and fostering the development of democracy in other countries. This book is fantastic. Granted, most of Kristy's delusions were religion-based (she frequently thought she was jesus christ and fervently worked at copying the bible word for word), still, I found myself rolling my eyes occasionally. Does what it says it'll do. The theme is awesome. When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey With Schizophrenia reveals her struggle with auditory hallucinations and delusions. So much great information and easily accessible to kids. It was a birthday gift, the p

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