Bread And Roses by Bruce Watson
Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
A lively narrative of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, tracing how thousands of largely immigrant millworkers—many of them women—walked off the job after a wage cut and transformed local hardship into a national labor cause; the book follows the strike’s grassroots organizing, cross‑ethnic solidarity, political and media battles, and hard-won concessions, while also examining the social and cultural forces that shaped early 20th‑century American labor and the enduring demand for both economic security and human dignity.
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