The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 (Political Thought)

Mary H. Blewett

ISBN 10: 0870237136 / ISBN 13: 9780870237133

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 1990

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Illustrated edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960 (Political Thought)
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870237136
• ISBN 13: 9780870237133
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.