Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants and the Struggle for the American Dream
Bruce Watson, . . Viking, $24.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03397-3
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 often the order of the day. 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 (
Reviewed on: 06/27/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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