About the Author:
SCOTT MOLLOY is an award-winning Professor at the Labor Research Center, University of Rhode Island. He previously drove a bus, was a union activist, and was Chief of Staff to a United States Congresswoman. A prolific writer, Molloy's most recent book is Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line (UNH, 2007).
Review:
The Providence Sunday Journal"
The Providence Phoenix"
The New England Quarterly"
"With the good sense, keen judgment, and undeniable wit for which he is so well known, University of Rhode Island labor historian Scott Molloy has written a fascinating book on a previously underappreciated figure in 19th-century New England."--The Providence Sunday Journal
"This remarkably rich history of 19th-century workers and one particularly successful entrepreneur, Joseph Banigan, is . . . solid. Molloy carries us through the struggles of Irish immigrants and their role in the burgeoning labor movement, along with Banigans's rise to riches and his subsequent fame as a philanthropist. Irish Titan, Irish Toilers is expertly researched and imminently readable." --The Providence Phoenix
"[Joseph] Banigan's story is set within the larger framework of the history of the Irish in nineteenth-century Rhode Island." --Rhode Island History
"Molloy utilizes an impressive range of newspapers, court cases, business records, and other sources to provide not only an excellent biography but also an illuminating examination of Irish Americans in late-nineteenth-century Rhode Island."--The New England Quarterly
With the good sense, keen judgment, and undeniable wit for which he is so well known, University of Rhode Island labor historian Scott Molloy has written a fascinating book on a previously underappreciated figure in 19th-century New England.-- "The Providence Sunday Journal"
This remarkably rich history of 19th-century workers and one particularly successful entrepreneur, Joseph Banigan, is . . . solid. Molloy carries us through the struggles of Irish immigrants and their role in the burgeoning labor movement, along with Banigans's rise to riches and his subsequent fame as a philanthropist. Irish Titan, Irish Toilers is expertly researched and imminently readable.-- "The Providence Phoenix"
[Joseph] Banigan's story is set within the larger framework of the history of the Irish in nineteenth-century Rhode Island.-- "Rhode Island History"
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